Jeremiah 47:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ How can it be quiet, when the Lord has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ How can you be silent when the LORD has directed you to attack Ashkelon and the coast line?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ 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

⁷ 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?

Jeremiah 47:7 Cross References

Isaiah 10:6

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.

Isaiah 13:3

I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.

Isaiah 37:26

“ ‘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,

Jeremiah 48:10

“Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Let a sword go through the land; and I cut off from it man and beast;

Ezekiel 21:14

“Prophesy therefore, son of man; clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yea thrice, the sword for those to be slain; it is the sword for the great slaughter, which encompasses them,

Ezekiel 21:30

Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

Ezekiel 21:9

“Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished,

Ezekiel 25:16

therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

Amos 3:6

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does evil befall a city, unless the Lord has done it?

Micah 6:9

The voice of the Lord cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear thy name: “Hear, O tribe and assembly of the city!

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.’ ”