Jeremiah 47 · Verse 5

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Jeremiah 47:5, King James Version

Jeremiah 47:5 in other translations

BSBThe people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?
WEBBaldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing. You remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself?
ASVBaldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
YLTCome hath baldness unto Gaza, Cut off hath been Ashkelon, O remnant of their valley, Till when dost thou cut thyself?
DARBYBaldness is come upon Gazah; Ashkelon is cut off, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
BBEThe hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.
WebsterBaldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

What does Jeremiah 47:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. Baldness ... cut thyself--Palestine is represented as a female who has torn off her hair and cut her flesh, the heathenish (Le 19:28) token of mourning (Jr 48:37). their valley--the long strip of low plain occupied by the Philistines along the Mediterranean, west of the mountains of Judea. The Septuagint reads Anakim, the remains of whom were settled in those regions (Nu 13:28). Joshua dislodged them so that none were left but in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod (Jos 11:21, 22). But the parallel (Jr 47:7), "Ashkelon ... the sea-shore," established English Version here, "Ashkelon ... their valley."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 Baldness is come upon Gaza - They have cut off their hair in token of deep sorrow and distress. Ashkelon is cut off - Or put to silence; another mark of the deepest sorrow. Ashkelon was one of the five seignories of the Philistines, Gaza was another. The remnant of their valley - Or plain; for the whole land of the Philistines was a vast plain, which extended along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea from Phoenicia to the frontiers of Egypt. The whole of this plain, the territory of the Philistines, shall be desolated.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Jeremiah 47:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בָּ֤אָהBa.'ahit will comeH935
קָרְחָה֙ka.re.ChahbaldnessH7144
אֶל\־'el-toH413
עַזָּ֔ה'a.ZahGazaH5804
נִדְמְתָ֥הnid.me.Tahit will be silentH1820
אַשְׁקְל֖וֹן'ash.ke.LonAshkelonH831
שְׁאֵרִ֣יתshe.'e.RitO remnant ofH7611
עִמְקָ֑ם'im.Kamvalley theirH6010
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
מָתַ֖יma.Taiwhen?H4970
תִּתְגּוֹדָֽדִי\׃\ \סtit.go.Da.diwill you cut yourselfH1413

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Jeremiah 47:5

  • Jeremiah 48:37

    For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

  • Jeremiah 25:20

    And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,

  • Micah 1:16

    Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

  • Jeremiah 41:5

    That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.

  • Mark 5:5

    And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

  • Judges 1:18

    Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.

  • Leviticus 21:5

    They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

  • Jeremiah 47:1

    The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

  • Ezekiel 25:16

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

  • Zechariah 9:5-7

    Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

  • Ezekiel 7:18

    They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • 1 Kings 18:28

    And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Baldness.
48:37; Isa 15:2; Eze 7:18; Mic 1:16
Gaza.
1; Am 1:6-8; Zep 2:4-7; Zec 9:5-7
the remnant.
4; 25:20; Eze 25:16
how.
16:1; 41:5; 48:37; Le 19:28; 21:5; De 14:1; 1Ki 18:28; Mr 5:5

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Context

  • Jeremiah 47:4

    Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines, and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the Lord will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.

  • Jeremiah 47:5

    Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

  • Jeremiah 47:6

    O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

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Jeremiah 47:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Sobre Gaza vino mesadura, Ascalón fué cortada, y el resto de su valle: ¿hasta cuándo te arañarás?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Gaza est devenue chauve, Askalon est détruite avec le reste de leur plaine… Jusques à quand te feras-tu des incisions?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Kahlheit ist über Gasa gekommen, vernichtet ist Askelon, der Überrest ihres Tales Wie lange willst du dich ritzen? -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Venit calvitium super Gazam; conticuit Ascalon, et reliquiæ vallis earum: usquequo concideris?