Jeremiah 51:23

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I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.”

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  • Jer 51:57 : 57 “I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her governors, leaders, and warriors. They will fall asleep forever and never wake up,” says the King whose name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 51:20-22
    3 verses
    88%

    20“Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.

    21I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.

    22I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.

  • Jer 51:24
    78%

    24“But I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wicked things they did in Zion right before the eyes of you Judeans,” says the LORD.

  • Nah 1:13
    75%

    13And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”

  • Jer 51:40
    75%

    40“I will lead them off to be slaughtered like lambs, rams, and male goats.”

  • Jer 50:23
    74%

    23Babylon 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!

  • Jer 23:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1New Leaders over a Regathered Remnant The LORD says,“The leaders of my people are sure to be judged. They were supposed to watch over my people like shepherds watch over their sheep. But they are causing my people to be destroyed and scattered.

    2So the LORD God of Israel has this to say about the leaders who are ruling over his people:“You have caused my people to be dispersed and driven into exile. You have not taken care of them. So I will punish you for the evil that you have done. I, the LORD, affirm it!

  • Zech 11:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14Then I cut the second staff“Union” in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

    15Again the LORD said to me,“Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

    16Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

  • Zech 13:7
    73%

    7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones.

  • Jer 45:4
    73%

    4The LORD told Jeremiah,“Tell Baruch,‘The LORD says,“I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.

  • Isa 30:14
    73%

    14It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern.”

  • Jer 28:2
    73%

    2“The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.

  • Hag 2:22
    73%

    22I will overthrow royal thrones and shatter the might of earthly kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and those who ride them, and horses and their riders will fall as people kill one another.

  • Zech 11:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10Then I took my staff“Pleasantness” and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people.

    11So it was annulled that very day, and then the most afflicted of the flock who kept faith with me knew that it was the LORD’s message.

  • Jer 25:34
    73%

    34Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.

  • Jer 28:4
    73%

    4I will also bring back to this place Jehoiakim’s son King Jeconiah of Judah and all the exiles who were taken to Babylon.’ Indeed, the LORD affirms,‘I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.’”

  • Jer 19:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10The LORD continued,“Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.

    11Tell them the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘I will do just as Jeremiah has done. I will smash this nation and this city as though it were a potter’s vessel which is broken beyond repair. The dead will be buried here in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.’

  • Jer 50:44-45
    2 verses
    72%

    44“A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me. There is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler that can stand up against me.

    45So listen to what I, the LORD, have planned against Babylon, what I intend to do to the people who inhabit the land of Babylonia. Their little ones will be dragged off. I will completely destroy their land because of what they have done.

  • Ezek 23:46
    72%

    46“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

  • Isa 14:25
    72%

    25I will break Assyria in my land, I will trample them underfoot on my hills. Their yoke will be removed from my people, the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.

  • Jer 22:7
    72%

    7I will send men against it to destroy it with their axes and hatchets. They will hack up its fine cedar panels and columns and throw them into the fire.

  • Jer 51:47
    72%

    47“So the time will certainly come when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her whole land will be put to shame. All her mortally wounded will collapse in her midst.

  • Mic 5:11
    72%

    11I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

  • Jer 25:36
    72%

    36Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders. Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks. They are wailing because the LORD is about to destroy their lands.

  • Jer 30:8
    72%

    8When the time for them to be rescued comes,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.

  • Ezek 16:39
    72%

    39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

  • Ezek 29:8
    72%

    8“‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal.

  • Jer 13:14
    71%

    14And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike. I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,’ says the LORD.”

  • Isa 14:5
    71%

    5The LORD has broken the club of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.

  • Amos 4:3
    71%

    3Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon.” The LORD is speaking!

  • Jer 51:52
    71%

    52Yes, but the time will certainly come,” says the LORD,“when I will punish her idols. Throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan.

  • Jer 18:7
    71%

    7There are times, Jeremiah, when I threaten to uproot, tear down, and destroy a nation or kingdom.

  • Zech 11:6
    71%

    6Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the LORD,“but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

  • Ezek 21:31
    71%

    31I will pour out my anger on you; the fire of my fury I will blow on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, who are skilled in destruction.

  • Amos 2:3
    71%

    3I will remove Moab’s leader; I will kill all Moab’s officials with him.” The LORD has spoken!

  • Jer 51:58
    71%

    58This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,“Babylon’s thick wall will be completely demolished. Her high gates will be set on fire. The peoples strive for what does not satisfy. The nations grow weary trying to get what will be destroyed.”

  • Jer 50:17
    71%

    17“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.

  • Jer 51:3
    71%

    3Do not give her archers time to string their bows or to put on their coats of armor. Do not spare any of her young men. Completely destroy her whole army.

  • Jer 23:4
    71%

    4I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the LORD, promise it!

  • Ps 2:9
    71%

    9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

  • Lev 26:26
    71%

    26When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

  • Isa 41:15
    71%

    15“Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.

  • Job 34:24
    71%

    24He shatters the great without inquiry, and sets up others in their place.