Jeremías 47:5

5 Gaza será humillada, su cabeza rapada;
Ascalón quedará en silencio.
Ustedes, los que quedan de las costas mediterráneas,
¿hasta cuándo se lamentarán y harán duelo?

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 Escuchen el ruido de los cascos de los caballos
y el estruendo de las ruedas de los carros de guerra al pasar.
Los padres aterrorizados corren desesperados,
ni siquiera miran hacia atrás para ver a sus hijos indefensos.

4 »Ha llegado el momento de destruir a los filisteos,
junto con sus aliados de Tiro y Sidón.
Sí, el Señor
está destruyendo a los pocos que quedan de los filisteos,
a esos colonos de la isla de Creta.

5 Gaza será humillada, su cabeza rapada;
Ascalón quedará en silencio.
Ustedes, los que quedan de las costas mediterráneas,
¿hasta cuándo se lamentarán y harán duelo?

6 »¡Oh espada del Señor
!
¿Cuándo volverás a descansar?
Vuelve a tu vaina;
descansa y mantente quieta.

7 »¿Pero cómo se mantendrá quieta
cuando el Señor
la ha enviado en una misión?
Pues la ciudad de Ascalón
y el pueblo que vive junto al mar
deben ser destruidos».