How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHow hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.
- Author
- Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
- Date
- Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile