Jeremiah 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 

"‘Ah, sword of the LORD,’ you cry, ‘how long till you rest? Return to your scabbard; cease and be still.’

"Ah, sword of the LORD, How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; Be at rest and stay 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 GOD, how long will you keep this up? Return to your scabbard. Haven't you had enough? Can't you call it quits?

O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.

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

"O you sword of the LORD, How long until you are quiet? Put yourself up into your scabbard, Rest and be still!

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 Lord, which is itself a figure of the destructive agency of the enemy armies, is here addressed as a person and is encouraged in rhetorical questions (the questions are designed to dissuade) to “be quiet,” “be at rest,” “be silent,” all of which is designed to get the Lord to call off the destruction against the Philistines.