Jeremiah 51:20

A Message Concerning Babylon

¹⁹ The portion of Jacob is not like these;
For the Maker of all is He,
And of the tribe of His inheritance;
The Lord of hosts is His name.
²⁰ He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war;
And with you I shatter nations,
And with you I destroy kingdoms.
²¹ “With you I shatter the horse and his rider,
And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,

Says the Lord

Weapons of War

Babylon

Cyrus

Persia

Isaiah 41:15-16

“Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;
You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them,
And will make the hills like chaff.

Isaiah 10:5

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

Micah 4:13

“Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,
For your horn I will make iron
And your hoofs I will make bronze,
That you may pulverize many peoples,
That you may devote to the Lord their unjust gain
And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Jeremiah 50:23

“How the hammer of the whole earth
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!

Isaiah 10:15

Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it?
Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it?
That would be like a club wielding those who lift it,
Or like a rod lifting him who is not wood.

Isaiah 13:5

They are coming from a far country,
From the farthest horizons,
The Lord and His instruments of indignation,
To destroy the whole land.

Isaiah 14:5-6

“The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers

Isaiah 37:26

“Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it,
From ancient times I planned it.
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Jeremiah 25:11

This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 27:5-7

“I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.

Zechariah 9:13-14

For I will bend Judah as My bow,
I will fill the bow with Ephraim.
And I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece;
And I will make you like a warrior’s sword.

Matthew 22:7

But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.