1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.

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Jeremiah 25:20, Jeremiah 25:20, Genesis 10:19, Genesis 10:19, Exodus 25:15

2Thus saith the Lord: Behold there come up waters out of the north, and they shall be as an overflowing torrent, and they shall cover the land, and all that is therein, the city and the inhabitants thereof: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,

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Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 15:5, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Jeremiah 8:16

3At the noise of the marching of arms, and of his soldiers, at the rushing of his chariots, and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have not looked back to the children, for feebleness of hands,

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Jeremiah 8:16, Judges 5:22, Jeremiah 8:16, Judges 5:22, Nahum 3:2

4Because of the coming of the day, in which all the Philistines shall be laid waste, and Tyre and Sidon shall be destroyed, with all the rest of their helpers. For the Lord hath wasted the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Cappadocia.

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Amos 9:7, Amos 9:7, Deuteronomy 2:23, Isaiah 20:6, Deuteronomy 2:23

5Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace with the remnant of their valley: how long shalt thou cut thyself?

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Jeremiah 48:37, Jeremiah 48:37, Jeremiah 25:20, Jeremiah 25:20, Jeremiah 41:5

6O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

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Jeremiah 12:12, Ezekiel 21:3, Ezekiel 21:5, Jeremiah 12:12, Ezekiel 21:3

7How shall it be quiet, when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon, and against the countries thereof by the sea side, and there hath made an appointment for it?

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Ezekiel 14:17, Micah 6:9, Ezekiel 14:17, Micah 6:9, Isaiah 10:6