KJV 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;
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Jeremiah 51:20
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;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
WEB World 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;
ASV 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;
YLT 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,
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 51
17 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
18 They [are] vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
19 The portion of Jacob [is] not like them; for he [is] the former of all things: and [Israel is] the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts [is] his name.
20 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;
21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;
22 With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;
23 I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
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מַפֵּץ־H4661 · map.petswar-clubאַתָּ֣הH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)לִ֔יH9030 · nimeכְּלֵ֖יH3627 · ke.liarticle/utensilמִלְחָמָ֑הH4421 · mil.cha.mahbattleוְנִפַּצְתִּ֤יH5310 · na.phatsto shatterבְךָ֙H9031 · kayouגּוֹיִ֔םH1471 · goynationוְהִשְׁחַתִּ֥יH7843 · sha.chatto ruinבְךָ֖H9031 · kayouמַמְלָכֽוֹת׃H4467 · mam.la.khahkingdom
Cross-references
Isaiah 41:15-16Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat [them] small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.Micah 4:13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.Isaiah 37:26Hast thou not heard long ago, [how] I have done it; [and] of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities [into] ruinous heaps.Zechariah 9:13-14When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.Jeremiah 27:5-7I 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.Isaiah 14:5-6The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the sceptre of the rulers.Jeremiah 25:9Behold, 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.Isaiah 10:5O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.Jeremiah 50:23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!Matthew 22:7But when the king heard [thereof], he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.Isaiah 13:5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.Jeremiah 25:11And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.Isaiah 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as if the staff should lift up [itself, as if it were] no wood.
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