Jeremiah 51:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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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  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. 16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 10:5 : 5 O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.
  • Mic 4:13 : 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze, and you shall beat in pieces many people, and I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
  • Jer 50:23 : 23 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
  • Zech 9:13-14 : 13 For I have bent Judah for myself, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man. 14 The LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth like lightning: and the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 But when the king heard about it, he was angry: and he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.
  • Isa 13:5 : 5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
  • Isa 14:5-6 : 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 37:26 : 26 Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that you should lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
  • Jer 25:9 : 9 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 against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
  • Jer 25:11 : 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
  • Jer 27:5-7 : 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed right to me. 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field I have given him also to serve him. 7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his grandson, until the very time of his land comes: and then many nations and great kings shall enslave him.

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  • Jer 51:21-23
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    85%

    21And 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;

    22With 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.

    23I 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.

  • Isa 41:15
    76%

    15Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.

  • Jer 51:19
    75%

    19The portion of Jacob is not like them; for He is the Maker of all things; and Israel is the rod of His inheritance; the LORD of hosts is His name.

  • Ps 2:9
    75%

    9You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

  • Jer 15:20
    74%

    20And I will make you to this people a fortified brass wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.

  • Joel 3:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

    10Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong.

  • Jer 22:7
    74%

    7And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Ezek 26:9
    74%

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Jer 1:18-19
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    73%

    18For behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

    19They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.

  • 2 Sam 22:35
    73%

    35He teaches my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.

  • Isa 9:4
    73%

    4For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

  • Ps 18:34
    73%

    34He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of bronze is broken by my arms.

  • Jer 18:7
    73%

    7At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

  • Hag 2:22
    73%

    22And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them; the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

  • Jer 50:22-23
    2 verses
    73%

    22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

    23How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! how Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

  • Mic 5:11
    72%

    11And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds.

  • Jer 1:10
    72%

    10See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

  • Nah 1:13
    72%

    13Now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.

  • Isa 51:16
    72%

    16And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, 'You are my people.'

  • Isa 14:25
    72%

    25That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him underfoot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

  • Jer 30:11
    72%

    11For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in due measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.

  • Zech 10:5
    71%

    5And they shall be like mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in battle. And they shall fight, because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

  • 2 Sam 22:40-41
    2 verses
    71%

    40For you have girded me with strength for battle: those who rose up against me you have subdued under me.

    41You have also given me the necks of my enemies, that I might destroy those who hate me.

  • Jer 21:5
    71%

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

  • Ps 60:7
    71%

    7Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim also is the strength of My head; Judah is My lawgiver;

  • Isa 54:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Behold, I have created the smith who blows the coals in the fire, and that brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

    17No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, says the LORD.

  • Isa 10:15
    71%

    15Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.

  • Ps 18:39
    71%

    39For you have girded me with strength for the battle: you have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

  • Mic 4:13
    71%

    13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze, and you shall beat in pieces many people, and I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

  • Isa 30:32
    71%

    32And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambourines and harps: and in battles of shaking he will fight with it.

  • Jer 10:17
    71%

    17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • Ezek 21:31
    71%

    31And I will pour out my indignation upon you, I will blow against you in the fire of my wrath, and deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

  • Ps 108:8
    71%

    8Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver;

  • Nah 2:1
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    1The one who dashes in pieces is coming up before you: keep the fortress, watch the road, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.

  • Jer 45:4
    71%

    4Thus you shall say to him, The LORD says this; Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will uproot, even this whole land.

  • Exod 15:6
    71%

    6Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power: your right hand, O LORD, has dashed in pieces the enemy.

  • Ezek 32:11
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    11For thus says the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.

  • Jer 50:25
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    25The 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.

  • Isa 2:4
    71%

    4And He shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

  • Ps 44:4
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    4You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

  • Ps 149:7
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    7To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;

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    13And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

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    2I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of bronze, and cut through the bars of iron.