Jeremiah 47:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“Sword of the Lord, you have not stopped. How long will you keep fighting? Go back into your scabbard! Stop! Be still!

Cross References

Jeremiah 12:12

The empty hills are covered with soldiers who have come to destroy everything. The Lord is using them to punish that land from one end to the other. No one is safe.

John 18:11

Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back in its place! I must drink from the cup the Father has given me.”

Ezekiel 21:30

“‘Put the sword back in its sheath. Babylon, I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land where you were born.

Ezekiel 14:17

“Or I might send an enemy army to fight against that country. The soldiers would destroy that country—I would remove all the people and animals from that country.

Jeremiah 25:27

“Jeremiah, say to those nations, this is what the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the people of Israel, says: ‘Drink this cup of my anger. Get drunk from it and vomit. Fall down and don’t get up. Don’t get up because I am bringing wars against you.’

Jeremiah 15:3

I will send four kinds of destroyers against them.’ This message is from the Lord. ‘I will send the enemy with a sword to kill. I will send the dogs to drag their bodies away. I will send birds of the air and wild animals to eat and destroy their bodies.

Jeremiah 12:4

How much longer will the land be dry? How long will the grass be dry and dead? The birds and the animals of this land have all died, and it is the fault of the wicked. But they are saying, “Jeremiah will not live long enough to see what happens to us.”

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the war flags? How long must I hear the war trumpets?

Isaiah 10:15

An ax is not better than the one who cuts with it. A saw is not better than the one who uses it. Is a stick stronger than the one who picks it up? It can’t do anything to the person who is using it to punish someone!

Isaiah 10:5

The Lord says, “I will use Assyria like a stick. In my anger I will use Assyria to punish Israel.

Psalm 17:13

Lord, get up and face the enemy. Make them surrender. Use your sword and save me from these wicked people.

1 Chronicles 21:27

Then the Lord commanded the angel to put his sword back into its sheath.

2 Samuel 2:26

Abner shouted to Joab and said, “Must we fight and kill each other forever? Surely you know that this will only end in sadness. Tell the people to stop chasing their own brothers.”

Judges 7:20

Then all three groups of Gideon’s men blew their trumpets and smashed their jars. The men held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands. As they blew their trumpets, they shouted, “A sword for the Lord and a sword for Gideon!”

Jeremiah 48:10

Bad things will happen to those who don’t obey the Lord and don’t use their swords to kill those people.

Jeremiah 50:35

The Lord says, “Sword, kill the people living in Babylon. Sword, kill the king’s officials and the wise men of Babylon.

Zechariah 13:7

The Lord All-Powerful says, “Sword, wake up and strike the shepherd, my friend! Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will run away. And I will punish those little ones.