Parallel Verses
King James 2000
You are my battle-axe and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
New American Standard Bible
And with you I
And with you I destroy kingdoms.
King James Version
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;
Holman Bible
My weapons of war.
With you I will smash nations;
with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.
International Standard Version
"You are my war-club and weapons of war. I'll smash nations with you and destroy kingdoms with you.
A Conservative Version
Thou are my battle-axe and weapons of war. And with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms,
American Standard Version
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;
Amplified
“You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-axe and weapon of war—
For with you I shatter nations,
With you I destroy kingdoms.
Bible in Basic English
You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;
Darby Translation
Thou art my maul, my weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy kingdoms;
Julia Smith Translation
Thou a mallet to me, a weapon of war: and I broke the nations in pieces with thee, and I destroyed kingdoms with thee;
Lexham Expanded Bible
[He says], "You [are] a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you.
Modern King James verseion
You are My war-club and weapons of war; for with you I will shatter nations; and with you I will destroy kingdoms.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou breakest my weapons of war, and yet through thee I have scattered the nations and kingdoms;
NET Bible
"Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.
New Heart English Bible
"You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
The Emphasized Bible
A war-club, art thou for me, Weapons of war; Therefore will I Beat down with thee - nations, and Destroy with thee - kingdoms;
Webster
Thou art my battle-ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
World English Bible
You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
Youngs Literal Translation
An axe art thou to me -- weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms,
Themes
Agency » In executing judgments
military Arms » Offensive: » Battle-axe
Chosen Instruments » Of judgment
Judgments » Inflicted upon » Nations
Persia » Prophecies concerning
The Nation » Imprisonment mutilations » Instruments of judgment sent against sinful nation
Interlinear
Naphats
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
19 The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the maker of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. 20 You are my battle-axe and weapons of war: for with you will I break in pieces the nations, and with you will I destroy kingdoms; 21 And with you will I break in pieces the horse and its rider; and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and its rider;
Cross References
Isaiah 41:15-16
Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.
Isaiah 10:5
O Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hand is my indignation.
Micah 4:13
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their wealth unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Jeremiah 50:23
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Isaiah 10:15
Shall the ax boast itself against him that hews with it? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that uses it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.
Isaiah 13:5
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Isaiah 14:5-6
The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
Isaiah 37:26
Have you not heard long ago, how I have done it; and from ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that you should lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
Jeremiah 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 25:11
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah 27:5-7
I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed right unto me.
Zechariah 9:13-14
When I have bent Judah as my bow, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and made you like the sword of a mighty man.
Matthew 22:7
But when the king heard thereof, he was angry: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.