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Flood Imagery, Verbal Aspect, and Prophetic Rhetoric in Jeremiah 47:2

כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה הִנֵּה־מַ֜יִם עֹלִ֤ים מִצָּפֹון֙ וְהָיוּ֙ לְנַ֣חַל שֹׁוטֵ֔ף וְיִשְׁטְפוּ֙ אֶ֣רֶץ וּמְלֹואָ֔הּ עִ֖יר וְיֹ֣שְׁבֵי בָ֑הּ וְזָֽעֲקוּ֙ הָֽאָדָ֔ם וְהֵילִ֕ל כֹּ֖ל יֹושֵׁ֥ב הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (Jeremiah 47:2) Thus says the LORD: “Behold, waters are rising from the north, and they will become a flooding torrent; they will flood the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Then mankind will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail.” Poetic Oracle and Judgment Symbolism in Jeremiah 47:2 Jeremiah 47 begins a poetic oracle concerning the Philistines.… Learn Hebrew
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