Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O thou sword of the LORD? Turn again unto thy sheath; rest, and leave off.
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.
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.
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.
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 Baldness is come upon Gaza. Ashkelon with her other valleys shall keep her peace. How long wilt thou slay, 6 O thou sword of the LORD? Turn again unto thy sheath; rest, and leave off. 7 But how can it cease, when the LORD himself hath given him a charge against Ashkelon, and raised it up against the cities of the sea coast?"
Cross References
Jeremiah 12:12
The destroyers come over the heath every way, for the sword of the LORD shall consume from the one end of the land to the other, and no flesh shall have rest.
Ezekiel 21:3-5
'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will upon thee, and will draw my sword out of the sheath, and root out of thee both the righteous and the wicked.
Deuteronomy 32:41-42
If I whet the lightning of my sword, and mine hand take in hand to do justice, I will show vengeance on mine enemies and will reward them that hate me.
2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour without end? Knowest thou not that bitterness is wont to come in the latter end? How long shall it be, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?"
1 Chronicles 21:27
And the LORD commanded the Angel to put up his sword again to the sheath of it.
Psalm 17:13
Arise, LORD, disappoint him, and cast him down; deliver my soul with thy sword from the ungodly -
Isaiah 10:5
Woe be also unto Assyria, which is a staff of my wrath, in whose hand is the rod of my punishment.
Isaiah 10:15
But doth the axe boost itself, against him that heweth therewith? Or doth the saw make any bragging, against him that ruleth it? That were even like as if the rod did exalt itself against him that beareth it: or as though the staff should magnify itself, as who say it were not wood.
Jeremiah 4:21
How long shall I see the tokens of war, and hear the noise of the trumpets?
Jeremiah 12:4
How long shall the land mourn, and all the herbs of the field perish, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? The cattle and the birds are gone, yet say they, "Tush, God will not destroy us utterly."
Jeremiah 15:3
For I will bring four plagues upon them, sayeth the LORD. The sword shall strangle them, the dogs shall devour them, the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth shall eat them up, and destroy them.
Jeremiah 25:27
'And say thou unto them: This is the commandment of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Drink and be drunken, spew and fall, that ye never rise: and that through the sword which I will send among you.
Jeremiah 51:20-23
Thou breakest my weapons of war, and yet through thee I have scattered the nations and kingdoms;
Ezekiel 14:17
Or if I bring a sword into the land, and charge it to go through the land, so that I slay down man and beast in it,
Ezekiel 21:30
Though it were put up again into the sheath, yet will I punish thee, in the land where thou wast nourished and born,
John 18:11
Then said Jesus unto Peter, "Put up thy sword into the sheath: shall I not drink of the cup which my father hath given me?"