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Jeremiah 51:20

“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

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ASV

Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

KJV

Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מַפֵּץ־ma.petz-[are] a war-clubH4661 →
אַתָּ֣ה'a.TahyouH859 →
לִ֔יLiof me
כְּלֵ֖יke.Leiweapons ofH3627 →
מִלְחָמָ֑הmil.cha.MahwarH4421 →
וְנִפַּצְתִּ֤יve.ni.patz.Tiand I smashH5310 →
בְךָ֙ve.Khaby <the> you
גּוֹיִ֔םgo.YimnationsH1471 →
וְהִשְׁחַתִּ֥יve.hish.cha.Tiand I destroyH7843 →
בְךָ֖ve.Khaby <the> you
מַמְלָכֽוֹת׃mam.la.KhotkingdomsH4467 →

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Isaiah 41:15–16Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.Micah 4:13Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.Isaiah 37:26Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.Zechariah 9:13–14For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.Jeremiah 27:5–7By My great power and outstretched arm, I made the earth and the men and beasts on the face of it, and I give it to whom I please.Isaiah 14:5–6The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.Jeremiah 50:23How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!Jeremiah 25:9behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.Isaiah 13:5They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.Jeremiah 25:11And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.Isaiah 10:15Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!Jeremiah 50:25The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.Ezekiel 21:3and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.Zechariah 9:13For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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