Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jeremiah 47:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 How can it be quiet, when the Lord has given it an order? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore— there he has appointed it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How can it [the sword of the Lord] be quiet when the Lord has given it an assignment to discharge? Against Ashkelon and against the [whole Philistine] seashore He has appointed it. American Standard Version (1901) How canst thou be quiet, seeing Jehovah hath given thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there hath he appointed it. Common English Bible How can you be silent when the LORD has directed you to attack Ashkelon and the coast line? Catholic Public Domain Version But how can it find rest, when the Lord has ordered it against Ashkelon and against its maritime regions, and when a task has been appointed to it there?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How shall it be quiet when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon and against the countries thereof by the sea-side, and there hath made an appointment for it? |
Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my warriors, my proudly exulting ones, to execute my anger.
“Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,
Accursed is the one who is slack in doing the work of the Lord, and accursed is the one who keeps back the sword from bloodshed.
Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, “Let a sword pass through the land,” and I cut off humans and animals from it,
And you, mortal, prophesy; strike hand to hand. Let the sword fall twice, thrice; it is a sword for killing. A sword for great slaughter— it surrounds them;
Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
Mortal, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord; say: A sword, a sword is sharpened; it is also polished;
therefore thus says the Lord God: I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the rest of the seacoast.
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster befall a city unless the Lord has done it?
The voice of the Lord cries to the city (and he shall save those who fear his name): Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!
Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”