Jeremiah 50:23
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50:23Babylon hammered the whole world to pieces.
But see how that ‘hammer’ has been broken and shattered!57
See what an object of horror
Babylon has become among the nations!
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- 57 Heb “How broken and shattered is the hammer of all the earth!” The “hammer” is a metaphor for Babylon who was God’s war club to shatter the nations and destroy kingdoms just like Assyria is represented in Isa 10:5 as a rod and a war club. Some readers, however, might not pick up on the metaphor or identify the referent, so the translation has incorporated an identification of the metaphor and the referent within it. “See how” and “See what” are an attempt to capture the nuance of the Hebrew particle אֵיךְ (’ekh) which here expresses an exclamation of satisfaction in a taunt song (cf. 32 אֵיךְ 2 and compare usage in Isa 14:4, 12; Jer 50:23).
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
How the hammer of the whole earth
is cut down and broken!
How Babylon has become
a horror among the nations!
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
How broken and shattered
is the hammer of the whole earth!
How desolate is Babylon
among the nations!
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
How the hammer of the whole earth
is cut down and smashed!
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
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NLTNew Living Translation
Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth,
lies broken and shattered.
Babylon is desolate among the nations!
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
How the blacksmith’s hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken!
How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations!
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KJV 1900King James Version
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!
How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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