Week 42, Day 4

The reading for today is Jeremiah 47-49; Psalm 80; 2 Peter 2.

Jeremiah 47

The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. Thus says Yahweh:

"Look, waters are rising from the north,
    and they will become as a raging torrent,
and they will overflow the land,
    and that which fills it,
    the city and those who live in it.
And the people will cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land will wail,
from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    from the clattering of his chariots,
    the noise of their wheels.
Fathers do not turn to their children
    because of the slackness of their hands.
Because of the day that is coming
    to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon
    every survivor who could help,
for Yahweh is destroying the Philistines,
    the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
Baldness has come upon Gaza,
    Ashkelon is destroyed.
O remnant of their valley,
    how long will you cut yourself with a blade?
Ah, sword of Yahweh,
    how long will you not be quiet?
Gather to your sheath,
    keep quiet and stand still.
How can you be quiet
    when Yahweh has given an order to it?
Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea,
    there he has appointed it."

Jeremiah 48

Concerning Moab, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel:

"Woe to Nebo,
    for it is devastated.
It is ashamed,
    Kiriathaim is captured.
Misgab is ashamed,
    and it is filled with terror.
The glory of Moab is no longer.
    In Heshbon they planned evil against her.
Come and let us cut her off from being a nation.
Also, Madmen, you will be silent.
    After you will go the sword.
The sound of a cry of distress arises from Horonaim,
    devastation and great destruction.
Moab is broken,
    her little ones make heard a cry for help.
For the ascent of Luhith,
    in weeping they go weeping,
For on the slope of Horonaim they have heard
    the distresses of the cry of distress of the destruction.
Flee! Save your life!
    For you must not be like the juniper tree in the desert.
For because of your trusting in your works and in your treasures,
    even you yourselves will be taken,
and Chemosh will go out into the exile,
    his priests and his officials together.
And the destroyer will come to every town,
    and a town will not escape.
And the valley will be destroyed,
    and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken.
Give salt for Moab,
    for certainly she will go to ruin,
and her towns will become as a desolation,
    without an inhabitant in them.
The one who does the work of Yahweh with slackness is cursed,
    and the one who keeps away blood from his sword is cursed.
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