Jeremiah 51:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ You are my war club, my weapon of battle: with you I smash nations; with you I destroy kingdoms;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ 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

²⁰ 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

²⁰ "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.

Jeremiah 51:20 Cross References

Micah 4:13

Arise and thresh, O daughter Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,

Matthew 22:7

The king was enraged. He sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

Jeremiah 50:23

How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger— the club in their hands is my fury!

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Isaiah 10:15

Shall the ax vaunt itself over the one who wields it or the saw magnify itself against the one who handles it? As if a rod should raise the one who lifts it up, or as if a staff should lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 13:5

They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

Isaiah 8:9

Take notice, you peoples, and be dismayed; listen, all you far countries; gird yourselves and be dismayed!

Isaiah 45:1

Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their robes, to open doors before him— and the gates shall not be closed:

Ezekiel 21:31

I will pour out my indignation upon you; with the fire of my wrath I will blow upon you. I will deliver you into brutish hands, those skillful to destroy.

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.

Nahum 2:1

A scatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.

Zechariah 10:4

Out of them shall come the cornerstone, out of them the tent peg, out of them the battle bow, out of them every commander.

Ezekiel 21:11

The sword is given to be polished to be grasped in the hand; it is sharpened; the sword is polished to be placed in the slayer’s hand.