Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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In Context
22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Cross References
Isaiah 14:4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! How the attacker has ceased!"
Jeremiah 51:20"You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you 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 →