Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
- BSB Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
- ESV Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
- NKJV ‘Returnit to its sheath. I will judge you In the place where you were created, In the land of your nativity.
- NASB Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
- NLT “Now return the sword to its sheath, for in your own country, the land of your birth, I will pass judgment upon you.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Gen 15:14I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
- Jer 47:6–7“‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’
- Ezek 16:38I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
- Ezek 21:4–5Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.
- Ezek 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
- Ezek 16:3–4and say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
- Ezek 28:15You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
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