Jeremiah Chapter 50 verse 23 Holy Bible
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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How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!
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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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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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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - The hammer of the whole earth. So in Isaiah (Isaiah 14:5), "Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers; which smote peoples in passion with an unceasing stroke." In the next chapter a similar title is conferred upon Israel, with the right to retaliate upon Babylon all the evil which Babylon had done to Zion (Jeremiah 51:20-24). Compare the epithet Martel, "The Hammer," given to Charles, Duke of the Franks, on account of his great victory over the Saraoens at Tours; it is tempting to add "Makkabi," the epithet of Judas (Maccabaeus), but the k is not the same letter as that in maqqab, hammer.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder . . . !--The image had been used before (Jeremiah 23:29) of the might of right as seen in the words of Jehovah. Here it describes the right of might as seen in the despotism of Babylon. The name of Charles Martel and, according to one etymology, that of Judas Maccabaeus, present interesting parallelisms. And now the hammer itself, which had been as an instrument in the hand of Jehovah (Jeremiah 51:20), is to be, in its turn, crushed by a power mightier than its own.
