Jeremiah 50:23
Good News Translation
Babylonia hammered the whole world to pieces, and now that hammer is shattered! All the nations are shocked at what has happened to that country.

New Revised Standard Version
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

Contemporary English Version
Babylonia was a hammer pounding every country, but now it lies broken. What a shock to the nations of the world!

New American Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut off and broken! What an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Douay-Rheims Bible
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:20-24 Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms: . . .

Isaiah 14:4-6,12-17 Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased? . . .

Revelation 18:16 And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet and was gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls.

Context
The Destruction of Babylon
22A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction. 23How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!24I have caused thee to fall into a snare, and thou art taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware of it: thou art found and caught, because thou hast provoked the Lord.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:20
Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms:

Ezekiel 26:17
And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall say to thee: How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast strong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all did dread?

Jeremiah 50:22
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