Jeremiah 47:2-7

The Prophecy regarding Philistia

2. waters rise up In Jeremiah 46:8 the same figure was used for an army. Cp. Isaiah 8:7 (on which Co. thinks this v. to be based), where the Assyrian army is likened to the floods of the Euphrates.

an overflowing stream a river suddenly swelling up through the effect of the winter rains; a frequent occurrence in Palestine.

and the men … shall howl Co. rejects this part of the v. both as over-passing the proper limits of the metre, and suggesting a universal judgement, which would be, according to him, a later conception.