Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.
New American Standard Bible
How long will you not be quiet?
Withdraw into your sheath;
Be at rest and stay still.
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.
Holman Bible
How long will you be restless?
Go back to your sheath;
be still; be silent!
International Standard Version
Ah, sword of the LORD, how long before you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard, be at rest, be silent!
A Conservative Version
O thou sword of LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? Put up thyself into thy scabbard. Rest, and be still.
American Standard Version
O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still.
Amplified
“O you sword of the Lord,
How long will it be before you are quiet?
Put yourself into your sheath;
Rest and be still.
Darby Translation
Alas! sword of Jehovah, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Withdraw into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Julia Smith Translation
Alas, thou sword of Jehovah, till when wilt thou rest? be gathered to thy sheath; be quiet and be still.
King James 2000
O you sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you are quiet? put yourself into your scabbard, rest, and be still.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Ah, sword of Yahweh, {how long} will you not be quiet? Gather to your sheath, keep quiet and stand still.
Modern King James verseion
O sword of Jehovah, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath; rest and be still.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O thou sword of the LORD? Turn again unto thy sheath; rest, and leave off.
NET Bible
How long will you cry out, 'Oh, sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you stop killing? Go back into your sheath! Stay there and rest!'
New Heart English Bible
You sword of the LORD, "how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still."
The Emphasized Bible
Ah! thou sword of Yahweh, How long, wilt thou not be quiet? Withdraw into thy scabbard, Rest thyself and be still.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ho, sword of Jehovah, till when art thou not quiet? Be removed unto thy sheath, rest and cease.
Themes
Swords » Carried in a sheath or scabbard
Swords » Illustrative » (putting, into its sheath,) of peace and friendship
References
Easton
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 47:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning The Philistines
5 The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves. 6 O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet. 7 How is it possible for it to be quiet, seeing that the Lord has given it orders? against Ashkelon and against the sea-land he has given it directions.
Cross References
Jeremiah 12:12
Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
Ezekiel 21:3-5
And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil.
Deuteronomy 32:41-42
If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.
2 Samuel 2:26
Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?
1 Chronicles 21:27
Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.
Isaiah 10:5
Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
Isaiah 10:15
Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
Jeremiah 4:21
How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.
Jeremiah 15:3
And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.
Jeremiah 25:27
And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jeremiah 51:20-23
You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 21:30
Go back into your cover. In the place where you were made, in the land from which you were taken, I will be your judge.
John 18:11
Then Jesus said to Peter, Put back your sword: am I not to take the cup which my Father has given to me?