Jeremiah 51:20

New American Bible - revised edition

You are my hammer, a weapon for war; With you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:15

Will the ax boast against the one who hews with it? Will the saw exalt itself above the one who wields it? As if a rod could sway the one who lifts it, or a staff could lift the one who is not wood!

Isaiah 10:5

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my wrath, the staff I wield in anger.

Isaiah 13:5

They come from a far-off country, and from the end of the heavens, The Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy all the land.

Isaiah 37:26

Have you not heard? A long time ago I prepared it, from days of old I planned it, Now I have brought it about: You are here to reduce fortified cities to heaps of ruins,

Isaiah 45:1

Thus says the Lord to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I grasp, Subduing nations before him, stripping kings of their strength, Opening doors before him, leaving the gates unbarred:

Isaiah 8:9

Band together, O peoples, but be shattered! Give ear, all you distant lands! Arm yourselves, but be shattered! Arm yourselves, but be shattered!

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land shall be a ruin and a waste. Seventy years these nations shall serve the king of Babylon;

Jeremiah 25:9

I am about to send for and fetch all the tribes from the north—oracle of the Lord—and I will send for Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant; I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all these neighboring nations. I will doom them, making them an object of horror, of hissing, of everlasting reproach.

Jeremiah 50:23

How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut off and broken! What an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Ezekiel 21:11

As for you, son of man, groan! with shattered loins and bitter grief, groan in their sight.

Ezekiel 21:31

Thus says the Lord God: Off with the turban and away with the crown! Nothing shall be as it was! Exalt the lowly and bring the exalted low!

Micah 4:12

But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord, nor understand his plan: He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

Micah 4:13

Arise and thresh, O daughter Zion; your horn I will make iron And your hoofs I will make bronze, that you may crush many peoples; You shall devote their spoils to the Lord, their riches to the Lord of the whole earth.

Nahum 2:1

At this moment on the mountains the footsteps of one bearing good news, of one announcing peace! Celebrate your feasts, Judah, fulfill your vows! For never again will destroyers invade you; they are completely cut off.

Zechariah 10:4

From them will come the tower, from them the tent peg, from them the bow of war, from them every officer.

Matthew 22:7

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