Jeremiah 50:23
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Jeremiah 50:23 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Jeremiah 50:23 is a verse from the book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!" Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Jeremiah 50:23 — KJV
“How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!”
— Jeremiah 50:23 (KJV)
Jeremiah 50:23 in Context — About the Book of Jeremiah
Jeremiah preached for forty years to a nation that would not listen, weeping as Jerusalem fell. Yet from the rubble come some of Scripture's most hopeful promises: plans to prosper and not harm, a new covenant written on hearts, and a God who invites us to call and see great things.
Cross-References for Jeremiah 50:23
“How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 50:23: how, whole, earth
“How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 50:23: how, become, among
“And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 50:23: earth, cut, broken
“And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 50:23: whole, babylon, desolation
“And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: to be a curse: Heb. for a curse”
Shares key themes with Jeremiah 50:23: earth, cut, among
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