“ You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;

“你是我争战的斧子和打仗的兵器；我要用你打碎列国，用你毁灭列邦；

你是我争战的斧子和打仗的兵器。我要用你打碎列邦，毁灭列国；

你是我争战的斧子和打仗的兵器。我要用你打碎列邦，毁灭列国；

耶和华说：“巴比伦啊！你是我的锤子，我作战的兵器，我要用你打碎列国，毁灭列邦。

耶和华说：“你是我的铁锤，作我的兵器；我用你们打碎列国，用你毁灭万邦。

你是我爭戰的斧子和打仗的兵器；我要用你打碎列國，用你毀滅列邦；

你是我爭戰的斧子和打仗的兵器。我要用你打碎列邦，毀滅列國；

你是我爭戰的斧子和打仗的兵器。我要用你打碎列邦，毀滅列國；

耶和華說：「巴比倫啊！你是我的錘子，我作戰的兵器，我要用你打碎列國，毀滅列邦。

耶和華說：“你是我的鐵鎚，作我的兵器；我用你們打碎列國，用你毀滅萬邦。

『你是我的棒槌和戰器；我要用你來打碎列國，用你來毁滅列邦；

爾為我戰鬥之椎及器械、我必用爾碎諸國、毀列邦、

爾米太王、若我巨椎。若我武備、用汝伐列邦、殲眾庶、

爾如我之大鎚、如戰之器械、用爾碎諸國、毀列邦、

“ You are my war club, my weapon for battle— with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms,

“ Babylon, you are my war club. You are my weapon for battle. I use you to destroy nations. I use you to wipe out kingdoms.

“ You are my battle ax and sword,” says the Lord.“ With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms.

You are my war club, my weapons of war. With you I will smash nations; with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.

He says,“ You are My war club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And with you I destroy kingdoms.

“ You are My battle-ax and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nation in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms;

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;

You are My battle club, My weapons of war. With you I will smash nations; with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.

Thou[ art] my battle axe[ and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

“ Babylon, you are my war club, my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. I used you to destroy kingdoms.

“ You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.

Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

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 shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, 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, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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

For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.Then the Lord will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.

“‘ 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,

“ It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.

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.

Shall 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!