Jeremiah 51:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;

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  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems. 16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 10:5 : 5 Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
  • Mic 4:13 : 13 Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
  • Jer 50:23 : 23 How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!
  • Zech 9:13-14 : 13 For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war. 14 And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.
  • Isa 13:5 : 5 They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.
  • Isa 14:5-6 : 5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord; 6 He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.
  • Isa 37:26 : 26 Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.
  • Jer 25:11 : 11 All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.
  • Jer 27:5-7 : 5 I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use. 7 And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.

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  • Jer 51:21-23
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    21With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;

    22With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;

    23With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.

  • Isa 41:15
    76%

    15See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.

  • Jer 51:19
    75%

    19The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.

  • Ps 2:9
    75%

    9They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

  • Jer 15:20
    74%

    20And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

  • Joel 3:9-10
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    74%

    9And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

    10For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

  • Ezek 26:9
    74%

    9He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Jer 1:18-19
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    18For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

    19They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

  • 2 Sam 22:35
    73%

    35He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

  • Isa 9:4
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    4For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.

  • Ps 18:34
    73%

    34He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.

  • Jer 18:7
    73%

    7Whenever I say anything about uprooting a nation or a kingdom, and smashing it and sending destruction on it;

  • Hag 2:22
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    22Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.

  • Jer 50:22-23
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    73%

    22There is a sound of war in the land and of great destruction.

    23How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!

  • Mic 5:11
    72%

    11I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

  • Jer 1:10
    72%

    10See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.

  • Nah 1:13
    72%

    13And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

  • Isa 51:16
    72%

    16And I have put my words in your mouth, covering you with the shade of my hand, stretching out the heavens, and placing the earth on its base, and saying to Zion, You are my people.

  • Isa 14:25
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    25To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.

  • Jer 30:11
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    11For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.

  • Zech 10:5
    71%

    5Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • 2 Sam 22:40-41
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    71%

    40For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

    41By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Jer 21:5
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    5And I myself will be fighting against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even with angry feeling and passion and in great wrath.

  • Ps 60:7
    71%

    7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

  • Isa 54:16-17
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    71%

    16See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.

    17No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.

  • Isa 10:15
    71%

    15Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

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    71%

    39For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

  • Mic 4:13
    71%

    13Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

  • Isa 30:32
    71%

    32And every blow of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will send on him, will be with the sound of music: and with the waving of his sword the Lord will make war against him.

  • Jer 10:17
    71%

    17Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

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    31And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

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    8Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

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    1See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

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    4This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;

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    6Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.

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    11For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.

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    25From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.

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    4You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob.

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