Jeremiah 47:6

World English Bible (2000)

You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 12:12 : 12 Destroyers are come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
  • Ezek 21:3-5 : 3 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. 4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north: 5 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.
  • Ezek 21:30 : 30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
  • John 18:11 : 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"
  • Jer 15:3 : 3 I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to kill, and the dogs to tear, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the earth, to devour and to destroy.
  • Jer 25:27 : 27 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
  • Jer 51:20-23 : 20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms; 21 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; 22 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin; 23 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke [of oxen]; and with you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.
  • Ezek 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;
  • Deut 32:41-42 : 41 if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me. 42 I 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."
  • 2 Sam 2:26 : 26 Then 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 shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"
  • 1 Chr 21:27 : 27 Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath.
  • Ps 17:13 : 13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
  • Isa 10:5 : 5 Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Should an axe 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.
  • Jer 4:21 : 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

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