Catholic Public Domain Version
"O sharp sword of the Lord, how long will you be without rest? Enter your sheath; be refreshed and silenced. "
— Jeremiah 47:6, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“O thou sword of Jehovah, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard; rest, and be still. ”
“You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.”
“How long will you cry out,‘Oh, sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you stop killing? Go back into your sheath! Stay there and rest!’”
“O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.”
“O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.”
“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.”
before the uproar of a procession of weapons and of his soldiers, before the commotion of his four-horse chariots and the multitude of his wheels. The fathers have not looked back for the sons, because of feebleness of hands,
because of the arrival of the day on which all the Philistines will be devastated, and Tyre and Sidon will be destroyed, with all the rest of their helpers. For the Lord has depopulated the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Cappadocia.
Baldness has arrived over Gaza. Ashkelon has been silenced, along with the remnant of their valley. And how long will you continue to be cut down?
O sharp sword of the Lord, how long will you be without rest? Enter your sheath; be refreshed and silenced.
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?”