Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and broken! Babylon has become an object of horror among the nations.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
How is the hammer{H6360} of the whole earth{H776} cut asunder{H1438} and broken!{H7665} how is Babylon{H894} become a desolation{H8047} among the nations!{H1471}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
How is the hammer{H6360} of the whole earth{H776} cut asunder{H1438}{(H8738)} and broken{H7665}{(H8735)}! how is Babylon{H894} become a desolation{H8047} among the nations{H1471}!
Coverdale Bible (1535)
How happeneth it, that the hammer of the whole worlde is thus broken & brussed in sonder? How chaunceth it, that Babilon is become a wildernes amonge the Heithen on this maner?
Geneva Bible (1560)
Howe is the hammer of the whole world destroied, and broken! Howe is Babel become desolate among the nations!
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Howe happeneth it that the hammer of the whole worlde is thus broken and brused in sunder? Howe chaunceth it that Babylon is become a wildernesse among the heathen on this maner?
Authorized King James Version (1611)
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Webster's Bible (1833)
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!
American Standard Version (1901)
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
American Standard Version (1901)
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Bible in Basic English (1941)
How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!
World English Bible (2000)
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that‘hammer’ has been broken and shattered! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Referenced Verses
- Jer 51:20-24 : 20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war; for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms; 21 And with you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; 22 With you also I will break in pieces man and woman; with you I will break in pieces old and young; and with you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden. 23 I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers. 24 And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD.
- Rev 18:16 : 16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
- Isa 14:4-6 : 4 That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers. 6 He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.
- Isa 14:12-17 : 12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see you will look narrowly upon you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms; 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house of his prisoners?
Similar Verses (AI)
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41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how has Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
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46 At the noise of the capture of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.
- Jer 50:24-263 verses80%
24 I have set a trap for you, and you are also caught, O Babylon, and you were not aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have fought against the LORD.
25 The LORD has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from the furthest border, open her storehouses: pile her up as heaps, and utterly destroy her: let nothing of her be left.
- Jer 51:47-493 verses78%
47 Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon; her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in her midst.
48 Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says the LORD.
49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
- Jer 51:29-302 verses78%
29 And the land shall tremble and be in sorrow; for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they have remained in their strongholds; their might has failed; they became like women; they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.
- Jer 51:52-554 verses77%
52 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
53 Though Babylon should ascend to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from Me shall destroyers come to her, says the LORD.
54 A sound of a cry comes from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;
55 Because the LORD has plundered Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves roar like great waters, a noise is uttered.
- Jer 50:15-162 verses77%
15 Shout against her all around: she has surrendered: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do unto her.
16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handles the sickle in the harvest time: for fear of the oppressing sword everyone shall turn to his own people, and they shall flee to their own land.
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13 Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be utterly desolate: everyone who passes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
- Jer 51:7-93 verses76%
7 Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunk; the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; howl for her, take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.
9 We would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed; forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country, for her judgment reaches unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies.
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58 Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; the people shall labor in vain, and the folk shall be weary.
- Jer 51:32-343 verses75%
32 And that the passages are blocked, the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are terrified.
33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has thrown me out.
- Jer 50:1-33 verses75%
1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.
2 Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a banner; publish, and do not hide it: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
3 For out of the north a nation comes against her, which shall make her land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein: they shall move away, they shall depart, both man and beast.
- Jer 50:28-303 verses75%
28 The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
29 Call together the archers against Babylon: all you that bend the bow, camp against it all around; let none of them escape: repay her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do unto her: for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
30 Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.
- Jer 51:23-242 verses74%
23 I will also break in pieces with you the shepherd and his flock; and with you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen; and with you I will break in pieces captains and rulers.
24 And I will render to Babylon, and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says the LORD.
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9 And, behold, here comes a chariot of men with a pair of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.
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19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' excellency, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
- Jer 50:9-102 verses73%
9 For, behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in battle array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be like those of a mighty expert warrior; none shall return empty.
10 And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, says the LORD.
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8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has the LORD done thus to this great city?
- Jer 51:43-442 verses73%
43 Her cities are a desolation, a dry land and a wilderness, a land where no one dwells, nor does any son of man pass by.
44 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he has swallowed; and the nations shall no longer gather to him; indeed, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
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43 The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands grew feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in labor.
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4 That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
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12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
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37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without an inhabitant.
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20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war; for with you I will break in pieces the nations, and with you I will destroy kingdoms;
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13 You who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, and the measure of your covetousness.
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11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
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64 And you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
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19 These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?