Jeremiah 47:7 - Modern English Version

⁷ How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord has given it a charge against Ashkelon and against the sea shore? There He has appointed it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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

⁷ 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)

⁷ 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

⁷ How can you be silent when the LORD has directed you to attack Ashkelon and the coast line?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ 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?"

Jeremiah 47:7 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath I will give him a command, to seize the plunder, to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded My sanctified ones, I have also called My mighty ones for My anger, even those who rejoice in My exaltation.

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard? Long ago I have done it, from ancient times I have formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

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.

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 21:14

You therefore, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands together. And let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain. It is the sword of the great one slain, which surrounds them.

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.

Ezekiel 21:9

Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord! Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished!

Ezekiel 25:16

therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines and will cut off the Kerethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast.

Amos 3:6

If the trumpet blasts in the city, are not the people frightened? If there is disaster against a city, is it not the Lord who has done it?

Micah 6:9

The voice of the Lord calls to the city— and wisdom will fear Your name: Heed the rod and Him who has appointed it.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not have compassion on them but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”