Jeremiah 51:20

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You are My war club, My weapon of battle: with you, I shatter nations, and with you, I destroy kingdoms.

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  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff. 16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 10:5 : 5 Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger, in whose hands is the staff of My indignation!
  • Mic 4:13 : 13 Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will make your horn like iron and your hooves like bronze, and you will crush many nations. You will dedicate their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
  • Jer 50:23 : 23 How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and broken! Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.
  • Zech 9:13-14 : 13 For I have bent Judah as my bow, and I have filled it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and make you like a warrior’s sword. 14 Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Sovereign LORD will sound the trumpet and march forth in the storms of the south.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 The king was enraged. He sent his army, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Does the axe exalt itself above the one who wields it? Or does the saw boast against the one who moves it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff acting as though it were not made of wood.
  • Isa 13:5 : 5 They come from a distant land, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole earth.
  • Isa 14:5-6 : 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, 6 which struck the nations in anger with unending blows, that subdued the nations in wrath, with relentless persecution.
  • Isa 37:26 : 26 Have you not heard? From long ago, I planned it; from ancient times, I designed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 I am about to send for all the clans of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and for my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and I will bring them against this land, its inhabitants, and all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them, making them an object of horror, scorn, and perpetual ruins.
  • Jer 25:11 : 11 This entire land will become a desolate ruin, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
  • Jer 27:5-7 : 5 By my great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth, the people, and the animals that are on it. I give it to anyone I choose. 6 Now I have handed over all these lands to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant. I have even given him the wild animals to serve him. 7 All nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their slave.

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  • Jer 51:21-23
    3 verses
    85%

    21With you, I shatter horse and rider; with you, I shatter chariot and driver.

    22With you, I shatter man and woman; with you, I shatter the old and the young; with you, I shatter the young man and the maiden.

    23With you, I shatter shepherd and flock; with you, I shatter farmer and oxen; with you, I shatter governors and officials.

  • 15See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff.

  • 19The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Creator of all things, and Israel is the tribe of His inheritance; the Lord of Hosts is His name.

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    9You will break them with an iron rod; You will shatter them like a potter's vessel.

  • 20I will make you a fortified bronze wall to these people. They will fight against you but will not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you,' declares the LORD.

  • Joel 3:9-10
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    9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Arouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and advance.

    10Hammer your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’

  • 7I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

  • 9'He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls, and he will demolish your towers with his weapons.'

  • Jer 1:18-19
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    73%

    18Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls to stand against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

    19They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue you,' declares the LORD.

  • 35He trains my hands for battle, so my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

  • 4Every warrior’s boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning, fuel for the fire.

  • 34He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; He causes me to stand on the heights.

  • 7At any moment I might speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to uproot it, tear it down, or destroy it.

  • 22I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

  • Jer 50:22-23
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    22The sound of battle is in the land—a great destruction.

    23How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and broken! Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.

  • 11I will remove sorceries from your hand, and you will have no more soothsayers.

  • 10See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.

  • 13Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.

  • 16I have put My words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to lay the foundations of the earth, and to say to Zion, 'You are My people.'

  • 25I will break Assyria in My land and trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be taken off their shoulders, and his burden removed from their necks.

  • 11For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I completely destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you with justice but will not leave you entirely unpunished.

  • 5They will be like mighty warriors, trampling through the mire of the streets in battle. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses will be put to shame.

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    40You equipped me with strength for battle; you subdued my adversaries beneath me.

    41You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and I destroyed those who hated me.

  • 5And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, a strong arm, in anger, in fury, and with great wrath.

  • 7That your beloved ones may be delivered, save with your right hand and answer me.

  • Isa 54:16-17
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    16Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire and produces a weapon fit for its purpose; and I have also created the destroyer to ruin.

    17No weapon formed against you will succeed, and you will refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me, declares the Lord.

  • 15Does the axe exalt itself above the one who wields it? Or does the saw boast against the one who moves it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff acting as though it were not made of wood.

  • 39I crush them, and they cannot rise; they fall beneath my feet.

  • 13Rise and thresh, Daughter Zion, for I will make your horn like iron and your hooves like bronze, and you will crush many nations. You will dedicate their ill-gotten gains to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

  • 32Every stroke the LORD lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the sound of tambourines and harps, as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.

  • 17Gather up your belongings from the land, you who live under siege.

  • 31This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are. Exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.

  • 8God has spoken in his holiness: 'I will exult; I will divide Shechem and measure out the Valley of Succoth.'

  • 1See, on the mountains, the feet of the one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, Judah, and fulfill your vows, for the wicked one will never again pass through you; he is completely cut off.

  • 4The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'

  • 6Your right hand, LORD, is majestic in power. Your right hand, LORD, shatters the enemy.

  • 11For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'The sword of the king of Babylon will come against you.'

  • 25The LORD has opened His armory and brought out the weapons of His wrath, for the Sovereign LORD of Hosts has a task to accomplish in the land of the Chaldeans.

  • 4He will judge between the nations and settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.

  • 4For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, nor did their own arm save them. But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You were pleased with them.

  • 7to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,

  • 13When the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, strike down every male there with the sword.

  • 2I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.