Jeremiah 50:23
New International Version
How broken and shattered is the hammer of the whole earth! How desolate is Babylon among the nations!

New Living Translation
Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth, lies broken and shattered. Babylon is desolate among the nations!

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

Berean Standard Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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

New King James Version
How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken! How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!

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

NASB 1995
“How the hammer of the whole earth Has been cut off and broken! How Babylon has become An object of horror among the nations!

NASB 1977
“How the hammer of the whole earth Has been cut off and broken! How Babylon has become An object of horror among the nations!

Legacy Standard Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth Has been cut in pieces and broken! How Babylon has become An object of horror among the nations!

Amplified Bible
“How the hammer of the whole earth Is crushed and broken! How Babylon has become A horror [of desolation] among the nations!

Christian Standard Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and smashed! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and smashed! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
How the mighty one of all the Earth is broken and is taken! How Babel has become an astonishment among the nations!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Contemporary English Version
Babylonia was a hammer pounding every country, but now it lies broken. What a shock to the nations of the world!

Douay-Rheims Bible
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken, and destroyed! how is Babylon turned into a desert among the nations!

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The hammer of the whole earth is broken and shattered. See how desolate Babylon is of all the nations!

Good News Translation
Babylonia hammered the whole world to pieces, and now that hammer is shattered! All the nations are shocked at what has happened to that country.

International Standard Version
How the hammer of all the earth is cut off and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

JPS Tanakh 1917
How is the hammer of the whole earth Cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become A desolation among the nations!

Literal Standard Version
How it has been cut and broken, | The hammer of the whole earth! How Babylon has been for a desolation among nations!

Majority Standard Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

New American Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut off and broken! What an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

NET Bible
Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces. But see how that 'hammer' has been broken and shattered! See what an object of horror Babylon has become among the nations!

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

New Heart English Bible
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken. How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations.

Webster's Bible Translation
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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

Young's Literal Translation
How hath it been cut and broken, The hammer of the whole earth! How hath Babylon been for a desolation among nations!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Destruction of Babylon
22“The noise of battle is in the land—the noise of great destruction. 23How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations! 24I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 51:20
"You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.

Ezekiel 26:17
Then they will lament for you, saying, "How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men--she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!


Treasury of Scripture

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

Jeremiah 51:20-24
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; …

Isaiah 14:4-6,12-17
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! …

Revelation 18:16
And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

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Jeremiah 50
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(23) How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder . . . !--The image had been used before (Jeremiah 23:29) of the might of right as seen in the words of Jehovah. Here it describes the right of might as seen in the despotism of Babylon. The name of Charles Martel and, according to one etymology, that of Judas Maccabaeus, present interesting parallelisms. And now the hammer itself, which had been as an instrument in the hand of Jehovah (Jeremiah 51:20), is to be, in its turn, crushed by a power mightier than its own.

Verse 23. - The hammer of the whole earth. So in Isaiah (Isaiah 14:5), "Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers; which smote peoples in passion with an unceasing stroke." In the next chapter a similar title is conferred upon Israel, with the right to retaliate upon Babylon all the evil which Babylon had done to Zion (Jeremiah 51:20-24). Compare the epithet Martel, "The Hammer," given to Charles, Duke of the Franks, on account of his great victory over the Saraoens at Tours; it is tempting to add "Makkabi," the epithet of Judas (Maccabaeus), but the k is not the same letter as that in maqqab, hammer.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
How
אֵ֤יךְ (’êḵ)
Interjection
Strong's 349: How?, how!, where

the hammer
פַּטִּ֖ישׁ (paṭ·ṭîš)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6360: A forge hammer

of the whole
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

earth
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

lies broken
נִגְדַּע֙ (niḡ·da‘)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1438: To fell a, tree, to destroy anything

and shattered!
וַיִּשָּׁבֵ֔ר (way·yiš·šā·ḇêr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7665: To break, break in pieces

What
אֵ֣יךְ (’êḵ)
Interjection
Strong's 349: How?, how!, where

a horror
לְשַׁמָּ֛ה (lə·šam·māh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8047: Ruin, consternation

Babylon
בָּבֶ֖ל (bā·ḇel)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 894: Babylon -- an eastern Mediterranean empire and its capital city

has become
הָיְתָ֧ה (hā·yə·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

among the nations!
בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃ (bag·gō·w·yim)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts


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