Jeremiah 47:6

Modern English Version

O sword of the Lord, how long shall you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath, rest, and be still.

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:26

Abner called to Joab, “Must the sword consume forever? Do you not understand that a bitter taste will result in the end? How long will you refuse to command the people to withdraw from chasing their brothers?”

1 Chronicles 21:27

So the Lord spoke to the angel, and he put away his sword in its sheath.

Psalm 17:13

Arise, O  Lord! Confront him, cast him down! Deliver my soul from the wicked by Your sword,

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? That is as if the rod wields itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift itself up as if it were not wood.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger and the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

Jeremiah 12:12

The destroyers have come upon all high places through the wilderness, for the sword of the Lord shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land. No one shall have peace.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts and the birds have been snatched away, because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

Jeremiah 15:3

I will appoint over them four kinds of disaster, says the Lord: the sword to slay, the dogs to tear, the birds of the heaven, the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 25:27

Therefore you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Drink and be drunk and spew and fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 48:10

Cursed be he who does the work of the Lord negligently, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

Jeremiah 50:35

A sword is against the Chaldeans, says the Lord, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men.

Ezekiel 14:17

Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, “Let the sword go through the land and cut off man and beast from it,”

Ezekiel 21:30

Return it to its sheath. I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your birth.

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against My shepherd and the man of My association,” says the Lord of Hosts. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter. I will turn My hand against the small ones.

John 18:11

Then Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?”

Judges 7:20

The three combat units blew the horns and broke the jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the horns for blowing in their right hands. They called out, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”