Jeremiah 47:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ “How shall it rest, when יהוה has given it a command? Against Ashqelon and against the seashore – there He has 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?"

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 defiled nation I send him, and against the people of My wrath I command him to seize the spoil, to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mud of the streets.

Isaiah 13:3

“I have commanded My set-apart ones; I have also called My mighty men for My displeasure, My proudly exulting ones.”

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard long ago how I made it, from days of old, that I formed it? Now I have brought it about, that you should be for crushing walled cities into heaps of ruins.

Jeremiah 48:10

(Cursed is he who is slack in doing the work of יהוה, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from blood).

Ezekiel 14:17

“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and I shall say, ‘Sword, go through the land,’ and I shall cut off man and beast from it,

Ezekiel 21:14

“And you, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands striking. And let the sword come down twice, thrice, the sword for the slain. It is the sword of the slain, the great one, which surrounds them.

Ezekiel 21:30

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

Ezekiel 21:9

“Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, ‘Thus said יהוה! “Say, ‘A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished!

Ezekiel 25:16

therefore thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am stretching out My hand against the Philistines, and I shall cut off the Kerĕthites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast,

Amos 3:6

If a shophar is blown in a city, do the people not tremble? If there is calamity in a city, shall not יהוה have done it?

Micah 6:9

The voice of יהוה cries to the city – and let sound wisdom see Your Name! “Hear the Rod and Him who appointed it!

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go, and you shall strike Amalĕq and put under the ban all that he has, and you shall not spare them, and put to death from man to woman, from infant to nursing child, from ox to sheep, from camel to donkey.’ ”