Jeremiah 47:6

Good News Translation

You cry out, ‘Sword of the Lord! How long will you go on slashing? Go back to your scabbard, stay there and rest!’

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:26

Abner called out to Joab, “Do we have to go on fighting forever? Can't you see that in the end there will be nothing but bitterness? We are your relatives. How long will it be before you order your men to stop chasing us?”

1 Chronicles 21:27

The Lord told the angel to put his sword away, and the angel obeyed.

Psalm 17:13

Come, Lord! Oppose my enemies and defeat them! Save me from the wicked by your sword;

Isaiah 10:15

But the Lord says, “Can an ax claim to be greater than the one who uses it? Is a saw more important than the one who saws with it? A club doesn't lift up a person; a person lifts up a club.”

Isaiah 10:5

The Lord said, “Assyria! I use Assyria like a club to punish those with whom I am angry.

Jeremiah 12:12

Across all the desert highlands people have come to plunder. I have sent war to destroy the entire land; no one can live in peace.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will our land be dry, and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people, people who say, ‘God doesn't see what we are doing.’”

Jeremiah 15:3

I, the Lord, have decided that four terrible things will happen to them: they will be killed in war; their bodies will be dragged off by dogs; birds will eat them, and wild animals will devour what is left over.

Jeremiah 25:27

Then the Lord said to me, “Tell the people that I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, am commanding them to drink until they are drunk and vomit, until they fall down and cannot get up, because of the war that I am sending against them.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the battle raging and hear the blasts of trumpets?

Jeremiah 48:10

Curse those who do not do the Lord's work with all their heart! Curse those who do not slash and kill!)

Jeremiah 50:35

The Lord says, “Death to Babylonia! Death to its people, to its rulers, to its people of wisdom.

Ezekiel 14:17

“Or I might bring war on that country and send destructive weapons to wipe out people and animals alike,

Ezekiel 21:30

“‘Put up the sword! I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land where you were born.

Zechariah 13:7

The Lord Almighty says, “Wake up, sword, and attack the shepherd who works for me! Kill him, and the sheep will be scattered. I will attack my people

John 18:11

Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back in its place! Do you think that I will not drink the cup of suffering which my Father has given me?”

Judges 7:20

and the other two groups did the same. They all held the torches in their left hands, the trumpets in their right, and shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”