Jeremiah 47:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ How canst thou be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given thee a charge? against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore, there hath he appointed it.

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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?"

Jeremiah 47:7 Cross References

Micah 6:9

The voice of the LORD crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

Ezekiel 14:17

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

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Amos 3:6

Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shalt evil befall a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Ezekiel 25:16

therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

Isaiah 37:26

Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

1 Samuel 15:3

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

Jeremiah 48:10

Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD negligently, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

Ezekiel 21:30

Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth, will I judge thee.

Ezekiel 21:9

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished:

Ezekiel 21:14

Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.