Jeremiah 51:20
He says: You are my war-club, my weapon of war. I shatter nations with you and with you I destroy kingdoms.
Isaiah 41:15-16
See I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them. You will reduce the hills to chaff.
Isaiah 10:5
How horrible it will be for Assyria! It is the rod of my anger. My fury is in the staff of the Assyrians' hands.
Micah 4:13
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion! I will make your horn like iron and I will make your hoofs like brass. You will pulverize many nations into pieces. I will devote their profit and wealth to Jehovah the Lord of the whole earth.
Jeremiah 50:23
The hammer of the whole earth is broken and shattered. See how desolate Babylon is of all the nations!
Isaiah 10:15
Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it? Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it? A rod cannot move the person who lifts it. A wooden stick cannot pick up a person.
Isaiah 13:5
They come from a far country, from the extremities of the heavens (horizons). Jehovah and his instruments of indignation come to destroy the whole land.
Isaiah 14:5-6
Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.
Isaiah 37:26
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it! And now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
Jeremiah 25:9
so I am going to send for all the families from the north. I will also send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, says Jehovah. I will bring the families from the north to attack this land, its people, and all these surrounding nations. I am going to destroy them and turn them into something terrible, something ridiculed, and something permanently ruined.
Jeremiah 25:11
This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.'
Jeremiah 27:5-7
I used my great strength and my powerful arm to make the earth along with the people and the animals on it. I give it to anyone I please.
Zechariah 9:13-14
I bend as my bow, Judah. I filled the bow with Ephraim! I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
Matthew 22:7
The king was angry, and sent his armies to put the evil servants to death and to destroy their town with fire.