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Jeremiah 47:6

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47:6How long will you cry out,11 ‘Oh, sword of the Lord,

how long will it be before you stop killing?12

Go back into your sheath!

Stay there and rest!’13

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Footnotes

  1. 11 The words “How long will you cry out” are not in the text but some such introduction seems necessary because the rest of the speech assumes a personal subject.
  2. 12 Heb “before you are quiet/at rest.”
  3. 13 The passage is highly figurative. The sword of the Lord, which is itself a figure of the destructive agency of the enemy armies, is here addressed as a person and is encouraged in rhetorical questions (the questions are designed to dissuade) to “be quiet,” “be at rest,” “be silent,” all of which is designed to get the Lord to call off the destruction against the Philistines.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Ah, sword of the Lord!

How long till you are quiet?

Put yourself into your scabbard;

rest and be still!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“ ‘Alas, sword of the Lord,

how long till you rest?

Return to your sheath;

cease and be still.’

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Oh, sword of the Lord!

How long will you be restless?

Go back to your sheath;

be still; be silent!

NLTNew Living Translation

“Now, O sword of the Lord,

when will you be at rest again?

Go back into your sheath;

rest and be still.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Ah, sword of Yahweh,

how long will you not be quiet?

Gather to your sheath,

keep quiet and stand still.

KJV 1900King 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.