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

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.

Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory 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; and you will beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.

When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh,“ and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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

For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.

“‘ Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.

‘ I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. I have also given the animals of the field to him to serve him.All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.

They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.