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Jeremiah 51:20

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He says: You are My battle-ax and weapon of war: for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms;

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Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? That is as if the rod wields itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift itself up as if it were not wood.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger and the staff in whose hand is My indignation.

They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, the Lord and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole land.

“Have you not heard? Long ago I have done it, from ancient times I have formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Thus says the Lord to Cyrus, His anointed, whose right hand I have held — to subdue nations before him and to loosen the loins of kings, to open doors before him so that the gates will not be shut:

Be broken, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces. And give ear, all you from far countries. Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.

This whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut asunder and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

He has given it to be polished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened, and it is polished to give it into the hand of the slayer.

I will pour out My indignation upon you; I will blow against you in the fire of My wrath, and deliver you into the hand of cruel men, skilled in destruction.

But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord, and they do not understand His plan, that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron; your hoofs I will make bronze, and you will shatter many peoples. I will devote their pillage to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

He who scatters has come to you. Guard the fortifications! Watch the road! Prepare yourself, and strengthen yourself!

From him comes the cornerstone, and from him the tent peg. From him comes the bow for battle, and from him every ruler goes out, all these together.

When the king heard about it, he was angry. He sent in his army and destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.




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