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Jeremiah 51:20

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;

KJV

Collidis tu mihi vasa belli : et ego collidam in te gentes, et disperdam in te regna :

Vulgate

καὶ εἶπεν Ἰερεμίας παντὶ τῷ λαῷ τοῖς δυνατοῖς καὶ ταῖς γυναιξὶν καὶ παντὶ τῷ λαῷ τοῖς ἀποκριθεῖσιν αὐτῷ λόγους, λέγων

LXX

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;

ASV

מַפֵּץ אַתָּ֣ה לִ֔/י כְּלֵ֖י מִלְחָמָ֑ה וְ/נִפַּצְתִּ֤י בְ/ךָ֙ גּוֹיִ֔ם וְ/הִשְׁחַתִּ֥י בְ/ךָ֖ מַמְלָכֽוֹת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
גּוֹיִ֔ם
gvym
noun · 557×
הּ
h
verb · 147×
ו
v
noun · 324×
מַמְלְכ֣וֹת
mmlkvt
noun · 117×
מַפֵּץ
mpts
noun · 1×
מִּלְחָמָ֔ה
mlchmh
noun · 316×
נִפַּצְתִּ֣י
nptsty
verb · 21×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Ezek 21:3 — And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
  • Ezek 21:31 — And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
  • Isa 10:5 — O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
  • Isa 10:5 — O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
  • Isa 10:15 — Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the
  • Isa 10:15 — Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the
  • Isa 13:3 — I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 14:5 — The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
  • Isa 14:12 — How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
  • Isa 14:16 — They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
  • Isa 37:26 — Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
  • Isa 41:15 — Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
  • Isa 45:1 — Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates
  • Isa 45:7 — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
  • Isa 46:11 — Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
  • Isa 47:3 — Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
  • Isa 48:14 — All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
  • Jer 25:9 — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants there
  • Jer 25:11 — And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
  • Jer 27:5 — 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 meet unto me.
  • Jer 50:23 — How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
  • Jer 50:23 — How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
  • Jer 50:25 — The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
  • Job 34:24 — He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.
  • Matt 22:7 — But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
  • Mic 2:13 — The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
  • Mic 4:13 — Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and t
  • Nah 2:1 — He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
  • Ps 72:4 — He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
  • Zech 9:13 — When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
  • Zeph 2:12 — Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.