Jeremiah 47:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:26

Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?

1 Chronicles 21:27

Then the Lord gave orders to the angel, and he put back his sword into its cover.

Psalm 17:13

Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

Isaiah 10:15

Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

Isaiah 10:5

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

Jeremiah 12:12

Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.

Jeremiah 25:27

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

Jeremiah 48:10

Let him be cursed who does the Lord's work half-heartedly; let him be cursed who keeps back his sword from blood.

Jeremiah 50:35

A sword is on the Chaldaeans, says the Lord, and on the people of Babylon, and on her rulers and on her wise men.

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:

Ezekiel 21:30

Go back into your cover. In the place where you were made, in the land from which you were taken, I will be your judge.

Zechariah 13:7

Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

John 18:11

Then Jesus said to Peter, Put back your sword: am I not to take the cup which my Father has given to me?

Judges 7:20

So the three bands all gave a loud note on their horns, and when the vessels had been broken, they took the flaming branches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands ready for blowing, crying out, For the Lord and for Gideon.