⁷ And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its great houses:

¹ The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines, before Pharaoh's attack on Gaza.

⁸ He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.

¹⁹ Do not give punishment for wrongs done to you, dear brothers, but give way to the wrath of God; for it is said in the holy Writings, Punishment is mine, I will give reward, says the Lord.

⁵ Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.

⁶ And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.

⁷ And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.

⁴ For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.

⁴ And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.

¹⁸ Jerusalem and the towns of Judah and their kings and their princes, to make them a waste place, a cause of fear and surprise and a curse, as it is this day;

¹⁹ Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;

²⁰ And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

¹ O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

² Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.

³ How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

⁴ Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

⁵ Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

⁷ But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

⁸ For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

⁶ He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

⁴¹ If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.

⁴² I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.

⁴³ Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.

³⁵ Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.