Jeremias 47:6

6 “ ‘Ah, espada do SENHOR,quando você descansará?Volte à sua bainha,acalme-se e repouse’.

Jeremias 47:6 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 47:6

O thou sword of the Lord
For though it was the sword of the Chaldeans, yet being appointed and sent by the Lord, and having a commission from him, and being ordered and directed in his providence to do his will, it is called his sword: how long [will it be] ere thou be quiet?
and cease from destroying men; wilt thou not cease till thou hast no more to destroy? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still;
and make no more havoc among the people: these are either the words of the Philistines, entreating a stop might be put to the ravages of the sword, and that the war might cease, and the desolations of it; or rather of the prophet, commiserating their state as a man, though they had been the avowed enemies of his people; to which the following words of him are an answer, either to the Philistines, showing why their request could not be granted, or as correcting himself.

Jeremias 47:6 In-Context

4 Pois chegou o dia de destruirtodos os filisteuse de eliminar todos os sobreviventesque poderiam ajudar Tiro e Sidom.O SENHOR destruirá os filisteus,o remanescente da ilha de Caftor.

5 Os habitantes de Gaza raparam a cabeça;Ascalom está calada.Ó remanescente da planície,até quando você fará incisões no próprio corpo?

6 “ ‘Ah, espada do SENHOR,quando você descansará?Volte à sua bainha,acalme-se e repouse’.

7 Mas como poderá ela descansarquando o SENHOR lhe deu ordens,quando determinouque ataque Ascalom e o litoral?”