Jeremiah 47:5-7

New Living Translation

⁵ Gaza will be humiliated, its head shaved bald;
    Ashkelon will lie silent.
You remnant from the Mediterranean coast,^[a]
    how long will you cut yourselves in mourning?

⁶ “Now, O sword of the Lord,
    when will you be at rest again?
Go back into your sheath;
    rest and be still.

⁷ “But how can it be still
    when the Lord has sent it on a mission?
For the city of Ashkelon
    and the people living along the sea
    must be destroyed.”