He says,“ You are My war club, My weapon of war; And with you I shatter nations, And 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 hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy 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.

“ 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 turned you into a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges; You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them, And make the hills like chaff.You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, And the storm will scatter them; But you will rejoice in the Lord, You will boast in the Holy One of Israel.

Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, For I will make your horn iron, And I will make your hoofs bronze, So that you may pulverize many peoples, And dedicate to the Lord their unjust profit, And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers,Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

Now the king was angry, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.

This entire land will be a place of ruins and an object of horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord,‘ and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will completely destroy them and make them an object of horror and hissing, and an everlasting place of ruins.

How the hammer of the whole earth Has been cut off and broken! How Babylon has become An object of horror among the nations!

For I will bend Judah as My bow, I will fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece; And I will make you like a warrior’s sword.Then the Lord will appear over them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning; And the Lord God will blow the trumpet, And march in the storm winds of the south.

Have you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it about That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.

‘ I have made the earth, mankind, and the animals which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.And now I have handed all these lands over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have also given him the animals 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 will make him their servant.

They are coming from a distant country, From the farthest horizons, The Lord and the weapons of His indignation, To destroy the whole land.

Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it? Is the saw to exalt itself over the one who wields it? That would be like a club wielding those who lift it, Or like a rod lifting the one who is not wood.