Jeremiah 51:20
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20 “You are my hammer and weapon of war:
with you I (A)break nations in pieces;
with you I destroy kingdoms;
Isaiah 41:15-16
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15 (A)Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge,
new, sharp, and having teeth;
you shall thresh (B)the mountains and crush them,
and you shall make the hills like chaff;
16 (C)you shall winnow them, and (D)the wind shall carry them away,
and the tempest shall scatter them.
(E)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.
Micah 4:13
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13 Arise and thresh,
O daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron,
and I will make your hoofs bronze;
you shall beat in pieces many peoples;
and (A)shall devote[a] (B)their gain to the Lord,
their wealth to (C)the Lord of the whole earth.
Footnotes
- Micah 4:13 Hebrew devote to destruction
Isaiah 10:5
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Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, (A)the rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
Matthew 22:7
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7 The king was angry, and he sent his troops and (A)destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
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Isaiah 14:5-6
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5 The Lord has broken the (A)staff of the wicked,
the (B)scepter of rulers,
6 (C)that struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
Zechariah 9:13-14
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13 For (A)I have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
against your sons, (B)O Greece,
and wield you like a warrior's sword.
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14 Then the Lord will appear over them,
and (C)his arrow will go forth like lightning;
(D)the Lord God will sound the trumpet
and will march forth in (E)the whirlwinds (F)of the south.
Jeremiah 50:23
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23 (A)How the hammer of the whole earth
is cut down and broken!
(B)How Babylon (C)has become
a horror among the nations!
Jeremiah 27:5-7
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5 “It is I who (A)by my great power and my outstretched arm (B)have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, (C)and I give it to whomever it seems right to me. 6 (D)Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, (E)my servant, (F)and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him. 7 (G)All the nations shall serve him and (H)his son and (I)his grandson, (J)until the time of his own land comes. (K)Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
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Jeremiah 25:11
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11 (A)This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and (B)these nations shall serve the king of Babylon (C)seventy years.
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Jeremiah 25:9
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9 (A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
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Isaiah 37:26
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26 (A)“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,
Isaiah 13:5
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5 (A)They come from a distant land,
from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
to destroy the whole land.[a]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:5 Or earth; also verse 9
Isaiah 10:15
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15 Shall (A)the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
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