Would the axe boast itself over him who chops with it, or the saw exalt itself over him who saws with it? As a rod waving those who lift it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
Jeremiah 51:20 - The Scriptures 2009 “You are My battle-axe, weapons of battle, and with you I shall break nations in pieces, and with you I shall destroy reigns. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-ax or maul and weapon of war–for with you I break nations in pieces, with you I destroy kingdoms, American Standard Version (1901) 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; Common English Bible You are my hammer, my weapon of war. With you I will crush the nations. With you 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together and with thee I will destroy kingdoms: |
Would the axe boast itself over him who chops with it, or the saw exalt itself over him who saws with it? As a rod waving those who lift it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
“Woe to Ashshur, the rod of My displeasure and the staff in whose hand is My displeasure.
They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, even יהוה and His weapons of displeasure, to destroy all the earth.
“Have you not heard long ago how I made it, from days of old, that I formed it? Now I have brought it about, that you should be for crushing walled cities into heaps of ruins.
“Thus said יהוה to His anointed, to Koresh, whose right hand I have strengthened, to subdue nations before him and ungird the loins of sovereigns, to open before him the double doors, so that gates are not shut:
“Be shattered, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Give ear, all you from the far places of the earth. Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.
And all this land shall be a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the sovereign of Baḇel seventy years.
see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares יהוה, ‘and Neḇuḵaḏretstsar the sovereign of Baḇel, My servant, and shall bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and shall put them under the ban, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and everlasting ruins.
“How the hammer of all the earth has been cut off and broken! How Baḇel has become a ruin among the nations!
“And He has given it to be polished, to be taken by the hand. This sword is sharpened and polished, to be given into the hand of the killer.
And I shall pour out My displeasure on you, blow against you with the fire of My wrath, and shall give you into the hands of beastly men, skilled to destroy.
But they do not know the thoughts of יהוה, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing-floor.
“Arise and thresh, O daughter of Tsiyon, for I make your horn iron and your hooves bronze. And you shall beat many peoples into pieces, and I shall seclude their gain to יהוה, and their wealth to the Master of all the earth.”
He who breaks in pieces has come up before your face. Guard the ramparts! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power very much.
“From him comes the corner-stone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler, together.
“But when the sovereign heard, he was wroth, and sent out his soldiers, destroyed those murderers, and set their city on fire.