I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jeremiah 47:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) How can you be quiet, seeing the LORD has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How can it [the sword of the Lord] be quiet when the Lord has given it an assignment to discharge? Against Ashkelon and against the [whole Philistine] seashore He has appointed it. American Standard Version (1901) How canst thou be quiet, seeing Jehovah hath given thee a charge? Against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore, there hath he appointed it. Common English Bible How can you be silent when the LORD has directed you to attack Ashkelon and the coast line? Catholic Public Domain Version But how can it find rest, when the Lord has ordered it against Ashkelon and against its maritime regions, and when a task has been appointed to it there?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How shall it be quiet when the Lord hath given it a charge against Ascalon and against the countries thereof by the sea-side, and there hath made an appointment for it? |
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
Cursed be he who does the work of the LORD negligently; and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.
Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;
therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Pelishtim, and I will cut off the Kereti, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Does the shofar alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the LORD hasn't done it?
The LORD's voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: *Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
Now go and strike `Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.