Oh, sword of the Lord!(A)
How long will you be restless?
Go back to your sheath;
be still; be silent!
How can it[a] rest
when the Lord has given it a command?(B)
He has assigned it(C)
against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. 47:7 LXX, Vg; MT reads you

“‘Alas, sword(A) of the Lord,
    how long till you rest?
Return to your sheath;
    cease and be still.’(B)
But how can it rest
    when the Lord has commanded it,
when he has ordered it
    to attack Ashkelon and the coast?”(C)

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