Now, the house, when it was in building, with whole quarry-stones, was built, - neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tools of iron, was heard in the house, when it was in building.

But, now, the doors thereof all together, with axes and hammers, they batter down.

A hammer and a sword, and a sharpened arrow, is a man becoming a false witness against his neighbour.

So, the carver, hath encouraged, the goldsmith, he that maketh smooth with the hammer, him that smiteth the anvil, - Saying of the welding, It is, good, Then hath he fastened it with nails - it must not totter!

As for the smith, with his cutting-tool, - When he hath wrought in the live coals, And, with hammers, hath fashioned it, - And hath wrought it with his strong arm, Anon he is hungry, and hath no strength, He hath drunk no water and so hath become faint!

With silver and with gold, he decketh it, - With nails and with hammers, they fasten them, that it may not totter.

Is not my word, like this, Like fire? Demandeth Yahweh, - And like a hammer, that breaketh in pieces a cliff?

How s cut and broken the hammer of all the earth! How hath Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!