Then Abner called out to Joab, ‘Must the sword devour for ever? Don’t you realise this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers? ’
Jeremiah 47:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Oh, sword of the Lord! How long will you be restless? Go back to your sheath; be still; be silent! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O you sword of the Lord, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still. American Standard Version (1901) O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still. Common English Bible You sword of the LORD, how long until you are silent? Return to your sheath; rest and be still! Catholic Public Domain Version O sharp sword of the Lord, how long will you be without rest? Enter your sheath; be refreshed and silenced. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard: rest and be still. |
Then Abner called out to Joab, ‘Must the sword devour for ever? Don’t you realise this will only end in bitterness? How long before you tell the troops to stop pursuing their brothers? ’
Then the Lord spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
Does an axe exalt itself above the one who chops with it? Does a saw magnify itself above the one who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the ones who lift it! It would be like a staff lifting the one who isn’t wood!
Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger – the staff in their hands is my wrath.
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the Lord has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of its residents, animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, ‘He cannot see what our end will be.’ ,
‘I will ordain four kinds of judgement for them’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #‘the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land to devour and destroy.
‘Then you are to say to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.”
How long must I see the signal flag and hear the sound of the ram’s horn?
The one who does the Lord’s business deceitfully is cursed, and the one who withholds his sword from bloodshed is cursed.
A sword is over the Chaldeans – this is the Lord’s declaration – against those who live in Babylon, against her officials, and against her wise men.
‘Or suppose I bring a sword against that land and say, “Let a sword pass through it,” so that I wipe out both people and animals from it.
‘ “Return it to its sheath! ‘ “I will judge you in the place where you were created, in the land of your origin.
Sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate – this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.
At that, Jesus said to Peter, ‘Put your sword away! Am I not to drink the cup the Father has given me? ’
The three companies blew their rams’ horns and shattered their jugs. They held their torches in their left hands and their rams’ horns to blow in their right hands, and they shouted, ‘A sword for the Lord and for Gideon! ’