| Jeremiah 47:6 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Ah, sword of the LORD, How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; Be at rest and stay still. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | You cry out, "Sword of the LORD, how long will you keep on fighting? Go back into your scabbard. Stay there and rest!"(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | 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. |
| ASV: | O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still. |
| BBE: | O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet. |
| DBY: | Alas! sword of Jehovah, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Withdraw into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. |
| ERV: | 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. |
| JPS: | 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. |
| WBS: | 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. |
| WEB: | You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still. |
| YLT: | Ho, sword of Jehovah, till when art thou not quiet? Be removed unto thy sheath, rest and cease. |
| Jeremiah 47:6 Cross References |
| XREF: | Judges 7:20 When the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"
Jeremiah 12:12 "On all the bare heights in the wilderness Destroyers have come, For a sword of the LORD is devouring From one end of the land even to the other; There is no peace for anyone.
Ezekiel 21:3 and say to the land of Israel, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am against you; and I will draw My sword out of its sheath and cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 47:6 O thou sword - Perhaps they are the words of the prophet, lamenting the havock which he made among the Philistines by the Chaldeans. |
| MHC: | 47:1-7 The calamities of the Philistines. - The Philistines had always been enemies to Israel; but the Chaldean army shall overflow their land like a deluge. Those whom God will spoil, must be spoiled. For when the Lord intends to destroy the wicked, he will cut off every helper. So deplorable are the desolations of war, that the blessings of peace are most desirable. But we must submit to His appointments who ordains all in perfect wisdom and justice. |
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