Bible verse
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:23 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 50.
19 I will return Israel to his pasture, and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan; his soul will be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and Gilead.
20 In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.
22 “The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction.
23 How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
24 I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.
25 The LORD has opened His armory and brought out His weapons of wrath, for this is the work of the Lord GOD of Hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
26 Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.
27 Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come—the time of their punishment.
KJV
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
ASV
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
ERV
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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