Jeremías 47:5

5 Le ha sobrevenido la calvicie a Gaza, desolada ha sido Ascalón. Remanente de su valle, ¿hasta cuándo te sajarás?

Jeremías 47:5 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness is come upon Gaza
The Targum is,

``vengeance is come to the inhabitants of Gaza.''

It is become like a man whose hair is fallen from his head, or is clean shaved off; its houses were demolished; its inhabitants slain, and their wealth plundered; a pillaged and depopulated place. Some understand this of shaving or tearing off the hair for grief, and mourning because of their calamities; which agrees with the latter clause of the verse: Ashkelon is cut off [with] the remnant of their valley;
this was one of the live cities of the Philistines; it lay north of Gaza. Herodotus ^F24 calls Ashkelon a city of Syria, in which was the temple of Urania Venus, destroyed by the Scythians; said to be built by Lydus Ascalus, and called so after his name ^F25. Of this city was Herod the king, and therefore called an Ashkelonite; it was now destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, but afterwards rebuilt and inhabited; and with it were destroyed the remainder of the cities, towns, and villages, in the valley, adjoining to that and Gaza; or Ashkelon and Gaza, now destroyed, were all that remained of the cities of the valley, and shared the same fate with them. The Targum is,

``the remnant of their strength;''

so Kimchi, who interprets it of the multitude of their wealth and power; how long wilt thou cut thyself?
their faces, arms, and other parts of their body, mourning and lamenting their sad condition; the words of the prophet signifying hereby the dreadfulness of it, and its long continuance.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Clio, sive l. 1. c. 105.
F25 Vid. Bochart. Phaleg l. 2. c. 12. p. 88.

Jeremías 47:5 In-Context

3 a causa del sonido de los cascos de sus corceles, del estruendo de sus carros y del estrépito de sus ruedas. No se vuelven los padres para cuidar a sus hijos, por la debilidad de sus brazos,

4 a causa del día que viene para destruir a todos los filisteos, para exterminar de Tiro y de Sidón a todo aliado que quede; porque el SEÑOR destruirá a los filisteos, al remanente de la costa de Caftor.

5 Le ha sobrevenido la calvicie a Gaza, desolada ha sido Ascalón. Remanente de su valle, ¿hasta cuándo te sajarás?

6 ¡Ay, espada del SEÑOR! ¿Hasta cuándo estarás inquieta? Vuélvete a tu vaina, reposa y cálmate.

7 ¿Cómo puede estar quieta, cuando el SEÑOR le ha dado órdenes? Contra Ascalón y contra la costa del mar, allí la ha asignado.