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!’

耶和华的刀剑哪，你到几时才止息呢？你要入鞘，安靖不动。

耶和华的刀剑哪，你要到几时才止息呢？要入鞘，安静不动。

耶和华的刀剑哪，你要到几时才止息呢？要入鞘，安静不动。

你们大喊，‘耶和华的刀啊，你何时才停下来呢？求你入鞘吧！停下来吧！’

耶和华的刀剑哪，你要到几时才可停下来呢？请你入鞘吧！休息静止吧！

耶和華的刀劍哪，你到幾時才止息呢？你要入鞘，安靖不動。

耶和華的刀劍哪，你要到幾時才止息呢？要入鞘，安靜不動。

耶和華的刀劍哪，你要到幾時才止息呢？要入鞘，安靜不動。

你們大喊，『耶和華的刀啊，你何時才停下來呢？求你入鞘吧！停下來吧！』

耶和華的刀劍哪，你要到幾時才可停下來呢？請你入鞘吧！休息靜止吧！

哦，永恆主的刀劍哪，你到幾時才能安靜下來呢？你收入鞘，靜息不動吧！

耶和華之刃歟、爾將何時休息、其入於鞘、安然不動、

耶和華之劍、何時入鞘、鋒藏不試。

主之劍乎、爾行戮不息、何時方止、當入於鞘、安靖不動、

“‘ Alas, sword of the Lord, how long till you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still.’

“‘ Sword of the Lord!’ you cry out.‘ How long will it be until you rest? Return to the place you came from. Stop killing us! Be still!’

Ah, sword of the Lord! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!

“ Now, O sword of the Lord, when will you be at rest again? Go back into your sheath; rest and be still.

Oh, sword of the LORD! How long will you be restless? Go back to your sheath; be still; be silent!

Ah, sword of the Lord, How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; Rest and stay still.

“ O you sword of the Lord, How long until you are quiet? Put yourself up into your 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.

Oh, sword of the Lord! How long will you be restless? Go back to your sheath; be still; be silent!

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.

“‘ You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’

and say to them,‘ This is what the LORD says: Look, I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone from the south to the north.Then everyone will know that I am the LORD, who drew my sword from its sheath– it will not be sheathed again!’

A destructive army will come marching over the hilltops in the desert. For the LORD will use them as his destructive weapon against everyone from one end of the land to the other. No one will be safe.

Return it to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in your native land, I will judge you.

But Jesus said to Peter,“ Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”

Then the LORD said to me,“ Tell them that the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says,‘ Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can’t get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.’

Rise up, LORD! Confront him! Knock him down! Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man!

I will sharpen my lightning- like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh– the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders!’”

“ Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say,‘ Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.

“ Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.”

The LORD ordered the messenger to put his sword back into its sheath.

How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“ God will not see what happens to us.”

Then Abner called out to Joab,“ Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?”

Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, a cudgel with which I angrily punish.

“ How long must I see the enemy’s battle flags and hear the military signals of their bugles?”

Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!

“ I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.