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Jeremiah 50:23
Jeremiah 50:23 is verse 23 of Jeremiah chapter 50, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
King James Version
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
World English Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
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Jeremiah 50:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.
22 “The noise of battle is in the land— the noise of great destruction.
23 How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
24 I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.
25 The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 51:20“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
Jeremiah 51:21With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.
Jeremiah 51:22With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
Jeremiah 51:23With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.
Jeremiah 51:24Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
Isaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
Isaiah 14:5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
Isaiah 14:6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
Isaiah 14:13You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
Isaiah 14:15But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
Isaiah 14:16Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
Isaiah 14:17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
Revelation 18:16saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!