Gaza will be humiliated, its head shaved bald; Ashkelon will lie silent. You remnant from the Mediterranean coast, how long will you cut yourselves in mourning?

迦萨成了光秃；平原中所剩的亚实基伦归于无有。你用刀划身，要到几时呢？

迦萨成了光秃，亚实基伦归于无有。平原中所剩的啊，你割划自己，要到几时呢？

迦萨成了光秃，亚实基伦归于无有。平原中所剩的啊，你割划自己，要到几时呢？

迦萨一片荒凉，亚实基伦沦为废墟。谷中的余民啊！你们要割伤身体到何时呢？

迦萨成了秃头的，亚实基伦静默无声（“静默无声”或译：“被毁坏了”），在它们的平原上（“在它们的平原上”或参照《七十士译本》译作“亚衲族”〔参书11:21~22〕）余剩的人哪，你们划伤自己的身体要到几时呢？”

迦薩成了光禿；平原中所剩的亞實基倫歸於無有。你用刀劃身，要到幾時呢？

迦薩成了光禿，亞實基倫歸於無有。平原中所剩的啊，你割劃自己，要到幾時呢？

迦薩成了光禿，亞實基倫歸於無有。平原中所剩的啊，你割劃自己，要到幾時呢？

迦薩一片荒涼，亞實基倫淪為廢墟。谷中的餘民啊！你們要割傷身體到何時呢？

迦薩成了禿頭的，亞實基倫靜默無聲（“靜默無聲”或譯：“被毀壞了”），在它們的平原上（“在它們的平原上”或參照《七十士譯本》譯作“亞衲族”〔參書11:21~22〕）餘剩的人哪，你們劃傷自己的身體要到幾時呢？”

迦薩成了光禿；亞實基倫完啦；長頸人餘剩之民哪，你刻劃身體、要到幾時呢？

迦薩已髠、谷中亞實基倫之餘、歸於烏有、爾割己身、伊於胡底、

迦薩人已薙厥髮、亞實基倫已絶、谷之遺民自毀其身、伊於胡底。

迦薩悉除髮、亞實基倫已亡、平原遺民歟、割傷己身、將至何時、

Gaza will shave her head in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. You remnant on the plain, how long will you cut yourselves?

The people of Gaza will be so sad they will shave their heads. And Ashkelon’s people will be silent. You who remain on the plain, how long will you cut yourselves?

Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves?

Baldness is coming to Gaza; Ashkelon will become silent. Remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been destroyed. Remnant of their valley, How long will you gash yourself?

Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is cut off With the remnant of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

Baldness is coming to Gaza. Ashkelon will become silent, a remnant of their valley. How long will you gash yourself?

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

The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb. How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, you who remain of Philistia’s power?

Baldness has come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

The people shave their heads and beards in mourning. They slash their hands and put on clothes made of burlap.

along with all the foreigners living in that land. I also gave it to all the kings of the land of Uz and the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod.

eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria to worship at the Temple of the Lord. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves, and had brought along grain offerings and frankincense.

Oh, people of Judah, shave your heads in sorrow, for the children you love will be snatched away. Make yourselves as bald as a vulture, for your little ones will be exiled to distant lands.

Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will raise my fist of judgment against the land of the Philistines. I will wipe out the Kerethites and utterly destroy the people who live by the sea.

“ Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord.

The city of Ashkelon will see Tyre fall and will be filled with fear. Gaza will shake with terror, as will Ekron, for their hopes will be dashed. Gaza’s king will be killed, and Ashkelon will be deserted.Foreigners will occupy the city of Ashdod. I will destroy the pride of the Philistines.I will grab the bloody meat from their mouths and snatch the detestable sacrifices from their teeth. Then the surviving Philistines will worship our God and become like a clan in Judah. The Philistines of Ekron will join my people, as the ancient Jebusites once did.

The Lord gave me another message. He said,

Your people will go to their temple in Dibon to mourn. They will go to their sacred shrines to weep. They will wail for the fate of Nebo and Medeba, shaving their heads in sorrow and cutting off their beards.

So they shouted louder, and following their normal custom, they cut themselves with knives and swords until the blood gushed out.

“ The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.

Gaza and Ashkelon will be abandoned, Ashdod and Ekron torn down.And what sorrow awaits you Philistines who live along the coast and in the land of Canaan, for this judgment is against you, too! The Lord will destroy you until not one of you is left.The Philistine coast will become a wilderness pasture, a place of shepherd camps and enclosures for sheep and goats.The remnant of the tribe of Judah will pasture there. They will rest at night in the abandoned houses in Ashkelon. For the Lord their God will visit his people in kindness and restore their prosperity again.

This is what the Lord says:“ The people of Gaza have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They sent whole villages into exile, selling them as slaves to Edom.So I will send down fire on the walls of Gaza, and all its fortresses will be destroyed.I will slaughter the people of Ashdod and destroy the king of Ashkelon. Then I will turn to attack Ekron, and the few Philistines still left will be killed,” says the Sovereign Lord.

They will dress themselves in burlap; horror and shame will cover them. They will shave their heads in sorrow and remorse.

“ The time has come for the Philistines to be destroyed, along with their allies from Tyre and Sidon. Yes, the Lord is destroying the remnant of the Philistines, those colonists from the island of Crete.

“ Since you are the people of the Lord your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead.

In addition, Judah captured the towns of Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron, along with their surrounding territories.

Day and night he wandered among the burial caves and in the hills, howling and cutting himself with sharp stones.

This is the Lord’s message to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the Philistines of Gaza, before it was captured by the Egyptian army.