Jeremiah 47:6

WEB

⁶“‘You sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’

KJV

⁶O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

BSB

⁶‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’

FBV

⁶Oh sword of the Lord, when are you going to stop killing? Go back in your sheath. Stop killing and stay there!

Extra References

Ezekiel 21:3-5

³Tell the land of Israel, ‘The LORD says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. ⁴Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north. ⁵All flesh will know that I, the LORD, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’

Jeremiah 12:12

¹²Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No flesh has peace.

Ezekiel 21:30

³⁰Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, I will judge you.

John 18:11

¹¹Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

Psalms 17:13

¹³Arise, LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,

2 Samuel 2:26

²⁶Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

Jeremiah 12:4

⁴How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”

Ezekiel 14:17

¹⁷“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land, so that I cut off from it man and animal’—

Deuteronomy 32:41-42

⁴¹if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me. ⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

Isaiah 10:15

¹⁵Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.