Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Jeremiah 47:5 stands in the closing chapters of Jeremiah that cover his personal experiences and his going into Egypt. It belongs with his prophecies that Egypt, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, and Elam would fall before Nebuchadnezzar. Those prophecies against the nations stand alongside prophecies concerning Babylon and the doom of Babylon.
Jeremiah 47:5 stands in the closing chapters of Jeremiah that cover his personal experiences and his going into Egypt. It belongs with his prophecies that Egypt, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, and Elam would fall before Nebuchadnezzar. Those prophecies against the nations stand alongside prophecies concerning Babylon and the doom of Babylon.