Jeremiah 51:20

You are my war hammer, my weapon for battle. 1 With you I will smash nations and destroy kingdoms. 1

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In The King James Version

Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

In Context

19But God, the portion of Jacob, is not like these, for he is the molder of all things. Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; 1 Yahweh of hosts is his name. 1

21With you I will smash horses and their riders; with you I will smash chariots and their drivers. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:5Woe to the Assyrian, the club of my anger, the rod by whom I wield my fury! 1

Isaiah 13:5They come from a far country, from way over the horizon. 1 It is Yahweh with his instruments of judgment, to destroy the whole land. 1

Isaiah 37:26Have you not heard how I determined it long ago 1 and worked it out in ancient times? Now I am bringing it to pass. 1 You are here to reduce impregnable cities into heaps of ruins. 1

Jeremiah 25:9see, I am about to send out a command to gather all the peoples of the north—this is Yahweh's declaration—with Nebuchadnezzar my servant, king of Babylon, and bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all the nations around you. For I will set them apart for destruction. I will turn them into a horror, an object for hissing, and an unending desolation.

Jeremiah 27:5“I myself made the earth by my great strength and my raised arm. I also made the people and animals on the earth, and I give it to anyone who is right in my eyes.

Ezekiel 21:11So the sword will be given to be polished, and then to be grasped by the hand! 1 The sword is sharpened and it is polished and it is to be given into the hand of the one who kills!”'” 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →

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