Jeremiah 47:6

‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

7How can it rest when the LORD has commanded it? He has appointed it against Ashkelon and the shore of its coastland.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:41when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

1 Chronicles 21:27Then the LORD spoke to the angel, who put his sword back into its sheath.

Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.

Jeremiah 4:21How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the horn?

Jeremiah 12:12Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

Jeremiah 25:27“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will 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 →

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