Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
22Hark! battle is in the land, and great destruction.
Cross References
Isaiah 14:4that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased! the exactress of gold ceased!
Jeremiah 51:20Thou art My maul and weapons of war, and with thee will I shatter the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:22-33
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord , and do according to all that I have commanded thee. 22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction. 23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! 24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware:… Read the whole commentary →