Jeremiah 50:23

How is cut asunder and broken the hammer of all the earth! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

In Context

22A sound of battle [is heard] in the land, and of great destruction.

24I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also captured, O Babylon, while thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hadst entered into a contest against the Lord.

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Cross References

Isaiah 14:4That thou wilt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath ceased the oppressor! ceased the exactress of gold!

Jeremiah 51:20Thou art a hammer unto me, weapons of war; and I strike down with thee nations, and I destroy with thee 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 →

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