World English Bible
"How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!"
— Jeremiah 50:23, World English Bible
“How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!”
“How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! ”
“Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that‘hammer’ has been broken and shattered! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!”
“How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!”
“How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!”
“How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!”
In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.
Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work [to do] in the land of the Chaldeans.
Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.