Jeremiah 47:6
O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Deuteronomy 32:41If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.
1 Chronicles 21:27And the Lord commanded the angel: and he put up his sword again into the sheath.
Isaiah 10:5Woe to the Assyrian, he is the rod and the staff of my anger, and my indignation is in their hands.
Jeremiah 4:21How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?
Jeremiah 12:12The spoilers are come upon all the ways of the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from one end of the land to the other end thereof: there is no peace for all flesh.
Jeremiah 25:27And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Dring ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 47:2-7
The Judgment of the Philistines. ( b. c. 588.) 1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. 2 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl. 3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his… Read the whole commentary →