Jeremiah 47:7
How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
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Gill's Exposition
How can it be quiet,.... There is no reason to believe it will, nor can it be expected that it should; to stop it is impossible, and to request that it might be stopped is in vain:
seeing the Lord…
As the Egyptians had often proved false friends, so the Philistines had always been sworn enemies, to the Israel of God, and the more dangerous and vexatious for their being such near neighbours to…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
How canst thou rather, with LXX, Syr., Vulg. How can it.…So correct "thee" by mg. it, the sea shore, the Philistine and Phoenician coast.
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