Jeremiah 51:20 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁰ “You are My battle-axe, weapons of battle, and with you I shall break nations in pieces, and with you I shall destroy reigns.

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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

Isaiah 10:15

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!

Isaiah 10:5

“Woe to Ashshur, the rod of My displeasure and the staff in whose hand is My displeasure.

Isaiah 13:5

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.

Isaiah 37:26

“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.

Isaiah 45:1

“Thus said יהוה  to His anointed, to Koresh, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and ungird the loins of sovereigns, to open before him the double doors, so that gates are not shut:

Isaiah 8:9

“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.

Jeremiah 25:11

‘And all this land shall be a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the sovereign of Baḇ

Jeremiah 25:9

see, I am sending and taking all the tribes of the north,’ declares יהוה, ‘and Neḇ

Jeremiah 50:23

“How the hammer of all the earth has been cut off and broken! How Baḇ

Ezekiel 21:11

“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 slayer.

Ezekiel 21:31

‘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.

Micah 4:12

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.

Micah 4:13

“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.”

Nahum 2:1

He who breaks in pieces has come up before your face. Guard the ramparts! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Strengthen your power greatly.

Zechariah 10:4

“From him comes the corner-stone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler, together.

Matthew 22:7

“But when the sovereign heard, he was wroth, and sent out his soldiers, destroyed those murderers, and set their city on fire.