I will send him to a deceitful nation: and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jeremiah 47:7 - 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? 更多版本King 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?" English Standard Version 2016 How can it be quiet when the Lord has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.” |
I will send him to a deceitful nation: and I will give him a charge against the people of my wrath, to take away the spoils, and to lay hold on the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.
Hast thou not heard what I have done to him of old? From the days of old I have formed it: and now I have brought it to effect: and it hath come to pass that hills fighting together and fenced cities should be destroyed.
Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord deceitfully: and cursed be he that withholdeth his sword from blood.
Or, if I bring the sword upon that land and say to the sword: Pass through the land: and I destroy man and beast out of it:
Thou therefore, O son of man, prophesy and strike thy hands together: and let the sword be doubled, and let the sword of the slain be tripled. This is the sword of a great slaughter that maketh them stand amazed,
Return into thy sheath. I will judge thee in the place wherein thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Say: The sword, the sword, is sharpened and furbished.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will stretch forth my hand upon the Philistines and will kill the killers and will destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?
The voice of the Lord crieth to the city, and salvation shall be to them that fear thy name: hear, O ye tribes, and who shall approve it?
Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath. Spare him not, nor covet any thing that is his; but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.