“‘You sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you are quiet?
Put yourself back into your scabbard;
rest, and be still.’
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 47:6 in context
Jeremiah 47:3–7
3
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones,
at the rushing of his chariots,
at the rumbling of his wheels,
the fathers don’t look back for their children
because their hands are so feeble,
4
because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains;
for the LORD will destroy the Philistines,
the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
5
Baldness has come on Gaza;
Ashkelon is brought to nothing.
You remnant of their valley,
how long will you cut yourself?
6
Selected verse
“‘You sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you are quiet?
Put yourself back into your scabbard;
rest, and be still.’
7
“How can you be quiet,
since the LORD has given you a command?
Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore,
there he has appointed it.”
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