Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms, New Living Translation “You are my battle-ax and sword,” says the LORD. “With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms. English Standard Version “You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms; Berean Standard Bible “You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. King James Bible 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; New King James Version “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms; New American Standard Bible He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms. NASB 1995 He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms. NASB 1977 He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms. Legacy Standard Bible He says, “You are My instrument of shattering, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms. Amplified Bible “You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-axe and weapon of war— For with you I shatter nations, With you I destroy kingdoms. Christian Standard Bible You are my war club, my weapons of war. With you I will smash nations; with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin. Holman Christian Standard Bible You are My battle club, My weapons of war. With you I will smash nations; with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin. American Standard Version Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; Contemporary English Version Babylonia, you were my hammer; I used you to pound nations and break kingdoms, English Revised Version Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; GOD'S WORD® Translation "You are my war club and my weapon for battle. I will use you to crush nations. I will use you to destroy kingdoms. Good News Translation The LORD says, "Babylonia, you are my hammer, my weapon of war. I used you to crush nations and kingdoms, International Standard Version "You are my war-club and weapons of war. I'll smash nations with you and destroy kingdoms with you. Majority Standard Bible “You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. NET Bible "Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms. New Heart English Bible "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; Webster's Bible Translation Thou art my battle-ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; World English Bible “You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionYou [are] My shatterer—weapons of war, "" And I have broken in pieces nations by you, "" And I have destroyed kingdoms by you, Young's Literal Translation An axe art thou to me -- weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms, Smith's Literal Translation Thou a mallet to me, a weapon of war: and I broke the nations in pieces with thee, and I destroyed kingdoms with thee; Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms: Catholic Public Domain Version “For me, you strike together the instruments of war; and with you, I will strike together nations; and with you, I will scatter the kingdoms. New American Bible You are my hammer, a weapon for war; With you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms. New Revised Standard Version You are my war club, my weapon of battle: with you I smash nations; with you I destroy kingdoms; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BiblePrepare weapons of war, for with you will I scatter the nations and with you will I destroy kingdoms; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Prepare for me weapons of war. I shall scatter the nations by you and I shall destroy kingdoms by you OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Thou art My maul and weapons of war, And with thee will I shatter the nations, And with thee will I destroy kingdoms; Brenton Septuagint Translation Thou scatterest for me the weapons of war: and I will scatter nations by thee, and will destroy kings by means of thee. Audio Bible Context Babylon's Punishment20“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. 21With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.… Cross References Isaiah 41:15-16 Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff. / You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel. Isaiah 10:5-7 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. / I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. / But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations. Isaiah 13:5 They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country. Isaiah 45:1-3 This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut: / “I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron. / I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name. Isaiah 13:17-19 Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold. / Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children. / And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. Isaiah 14:4-6 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! / The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. / It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution. Isaiah 44:28 who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,’ who says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Let its foundation be laid.’” Isaiah 47:6 I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke. Ezekiel 21:19-23 “Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city. / Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem. / For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver. ... Ezekiel 30:24-25 I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man. / I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king, and he wields it against the land of Egypt. Ezekiel 25:14 I will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.’ Daniel 2:37-38 You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory. / Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold. Daniel 5:18-19 As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor. / Because of the greatness that He bestowed on him, the people of every nation and language trembled in fear before him. He killed whom he wished and kept alive whom he wished; he exalted whom he wished and humbled whom he wished. Habakkuk 1:6-7 For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own. / They are dreaded and feared; from themselves they derive justice and sovereignty. Zechariah 9:13 For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man. Treasury of Scripture You are my battle ax and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms; art Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! Isaiah 10:5,15 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation… Isaiah 13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. with thee. Jeremiah 25:9,11 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations… Jeremiah 27:5-7 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me… Jump to Previous Axe Battle Battle-Axe Break Broken Club Destroy Destroyed Fighting Hammer Instrument Kingdoms Maul Nations Pieces Shatter War Weapon WeaponsJump to Next Axe Battle Battle-Axe Break Broken Club Destroy Destroyed Fighting Hammer Instrument Kingdoms Maul Nations Pieces Shatter War Weapon WeaponsJeremiah 51 1. The severe judgment of God against Babylon, in revenge of Israel59. Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah, to be cast into Euphrates, 64. in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon You are My war club The phrase "You are My war club" signifies a powerful instrument in the hands of God. The Hebrew word for "war club" is "maqqel," which can also mean a rod or staff used for striking. In the ancient Near Eastern context, a war club was a weapon of significant force, used to break through enemy defenses. This imagery suggests that God is using a chosen instrument to execute His judgment and fulfill His purposes. The emphasis is on divine empowerment, where the instrument itself is not inherently powerful but becomes mighty through God's use. My weapon for battle with you I shatter nations with you I destroy kingdoms With thee will I break in pieces . . .--The tense, in this and in the following, should be the present. The force of the verb is multiplied by the emphatic iteration. All obstacles are to be crushed in the victorious march of the conqueror. Verses 20-26. - Israel is now to be Jehovah's hammer, striking down everything, even the Chaldean colossus. But though Babylon may be as great and as destructive as a volcanic mountain, it shall soon be quite burnt out. Verse 20. - My battle axe; or, my mace. The mace (for a picture of which, see Rawlinson, 'Ancient Monarchies,' 1:459) was a weapon constantly employed by the Assyrians and presumably by the Babylonian kings. The battle axe was much less frequently used. But who is addressed by this terrible title? The commentators are divided, some inclining to Babylon,(1) because Babylon was the last person addressed (see ver. 14), and (2) because a similar title was given to Babylon in Jeremiah 50:23: others to Israel, on the ground that the tenses are the same throughout the passage (vers. 20-24). The latter view is probably the best. How could Babylon be said to shatter her own "governors" and "viceroys" (for the prophet deliberately chooses the Babylonian official names)? The argument from the context is not very weighty; for it is clear that the connection of the parts of this prophecy is very loose. We may assume, then, that ver. 20 begins a fresh paragraph, standing quite apart from that which precedes. The objection of Graf and Keil, is that Israel could not himself be styled a "mace," it being Israel's destiny to be delivered by others. But is not a very similar statement made of Israel in Isaiah 41:15; Psalm 149:7-9? (Kuenen offers a third explanation - Cyrus.) The nations... kingdoms. First the great social organisms are mentioned; next comes the military power; next the population, according to sex, age, and class. Hebrew “Youאַתָּ֣ה (’at·tāh) Pronoun - second person masculine singular Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you are My war club, מַפֵּץ־ (map·pêṣ-) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4661: A smiter, a war club My weapon כְּלֵ֖י (kə·lê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus for battle. מִלְחָמָ֑ה (mil·ḥā·māh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4421: A battle, war With you I shatter וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤י (wə·nip·paṣ·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 5310: To dash to pieces, scatter nations; גּוֹיִ֔ם (gō·w·yim) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts with you I bring kingdoms מַמְלָכֽוֹת׃ (mam·lā·ḵō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 4467: Kingdom, sovereignty, dominion, reign to ruin. וְהִשְׁחַתִּ֥י (wə·hiš·ḥat·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin Links Jeremiah 51:20 NIVJeremiah 51:20 NLT Jeremiah 51:20 ESV Jeremiah 51:20 NASB Jeremiah 51:20 KJV Jeremiah 51:20 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 51:20 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 51:20 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 51:20 French Bible Jeremiah 51:20 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 51:20 You are my battle axe and weapons (Jer.) |
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