47:6 How long will you cry out, 1 ‘Oh, sword of the Lord,
how long will it be before you stop killing? 2
Go back into your sheath!
Stay there and rest!’ 3
1 tn The words “How long will you cry out” are not in the text but some such introduction seems necessary because the rest of the speech assumes a personal subject.
2 tn Heb “before you are quiet/at rest.”
3 sn The passage is highly figurative. The sword of the