Jeremiah 50:23

Jeremiah chapter 50 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

KJV

King James Version · 1611

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Context

v.22A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

v.23This passage

v.24I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jeremiah 51:20
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;
Isaiah 14:12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!
Isaiah 14:4
that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Revelation 18:16
saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl!