This is what the LORD says: "See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail Sermons
But correct thee in measure. Correction is like physic, not to be given without good advice and caution. We use a difference when we go about to hew a rugged piece of timber, and to smooth a little stick, which you can bend as you please. A fit season must be observed. Cut your trees at some time of the year, and you kill them; prune them at other times, and they thrive much the better. Horses too straight reined in are apt to rise up with their forefeet; when they are allowed convenient liberty with their heads they go better.(G. Swinnock.). People Jeremiah, Pharaoh, ZidonPlaces Ashkelon, Caphtor, Gaza, Sidon, TyreTopics Behold, Cry, Dwell, Inhabitants, North, Overflow, Overflowing, Rise, Rising, Says, Stream, Therein, Thus, Torrent, Towns, Wail, WatersOutline 1. The destruction of the PhilistinesDictionary of Bible Themes Jeremiah 47:2Library The Sword of the Lord'O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. 7. How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it a charge?'--JER. xlvii. 6, 7. The prophet is here in the full tide of his prophecies against the nations round about. This paragraph is entirely occupied with threatenings. Bearing the cup of woes, he turns to one after another of the ancestral enemies of Israel, Egypt and Philistia on the south and west, Moab on the south and … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Appendix ii. Jeremiah Links Jeremiah 47:2 NIVJeremiah 47:2 NLT Jeremiah 47:2 ESV Jeremiah 47:2 NASB Jeremiah 47:2 KJV Jeremiah 47:2 Bible Apps Jeremiah 47:2 Parallel Jeremiah 47:2 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 47:2 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 47:2 French Bible Jeremiah 47:2 German Bible Jeremiah 47:2 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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