To cut off from bTyre and Sidon every helper who remains;
For the Lord shall plunder the Philistines,
cThe remnant of the country of dCaphtor.
bAshkelon is cut off
With the remnant of their valley.
How long will you cut yourself?
How long until you are quiet?
Put yourself up into your scabbard,
Rest and be still!
Seeing the Lord has agiven it a charge
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore?
There He has bappointed it.”
| << Jeremiah 47:5 | Jeremiah 47:7 >> |
Jeremiah 47:6
O thou sword of the Lord - This is a most grand prosopopoeia - a dialogue between the sword of the Lord and the prophet. Nothing can be imagined more sublime.
Put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still - Shed no more blood, destroy no more lives, erase no more cities, desolate no more countries. Rest : - hast thou not been long enough at this work of judgment? O be still : - let wars and desolations cease for ever.
| << Jeremiah 47:5 | Jeremiah 47:7 >> |
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