Jeremiah 51:20 Cross References - ACV

²⁰ 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,

⁵ Ho, Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

¹⁵ Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him who is not wood.

⁵ They come from a far country, from the outermost part of heaven, even LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

⁵ LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, ⁶ who smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

²⁶ Have thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

¹⁵ Behold, I have made thee as a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth. Thou shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. ¹⁶ Thou shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them. And thou shall rejoice in LORD. Thou shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants of it, and against all these nations round about. And I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

¹¹ And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment. And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

⁵ I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whom it seems right to me. ⁶ And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. And the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him. ⁷ And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of his own land comes. And then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.

²³ How the hammer of the whole earth is cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

¹³ Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass, and thou shall beat many peoples in pieces. And I will devote their gain to LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

¹³ For I have bent Judah for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man. ¹⁴ And LORD shall be seen over them. And his arrow shall go forth as the lightning. And the lord LORD will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

⁷ But having heard that, the king was angry, and having sent forth his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.