Jeremiah 47:6–7
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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
47:7But how can it rest14
when I, the Lord, have15 given it orders?
I have ordered it to attack
the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.16
Footnotes
- 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.
- 12 Heb “before you are quiet/at rest.”
- 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.
- 14 The reading here follows the Greek, , and Latin versions. The Hebrew text reads “how can you rest” as a continuation of the second person in v. 6.
- 15 Heb “When the Lord has.” The first person is again adopted because the Lord has been speaking.
- 16 Heb “Against Ashkelon and the sea coast, there he has appointed it.” For the switch to the first person see the preceding translator’s note. “There” is poetical and redundant and the idea of “attacking” is implicit in “against.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Ah, sword of the Lord!
How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
rest and be still!
How can it be quiet
when the Lord has given it a charge?
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore
he has appointed it.”
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“ ‘Alas, sword of the Lord,
how long till you rest?
Return to your sheath;
cease and be still.’
But how can it rest
when the Lord has commanded it,
when he has ordered it
to attack Ashkelon and the coast?”
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Oh, sword of the Lord!
How long will you be restless?
Go back to your sheath;
be still; be silent!
How can it rest
when the Lord has given it a command?
He has assigned it
against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.
Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
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.
“But how can it be still
when the Lord has sent it on a mission?
For the city of Ashkelon
and the people living along the sea
must be destroyed.”
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Ah, sword of Yahweh,
how long will you not be quiet?
Gather to your sheath,
keep quiet and stand still.
How can you be quiet
when Yahweh has given an order to it?
Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea,
there he has appointed it.”
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
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.
How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it a charge
Against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
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