17:13 Rise up, Lord!
Confront him! 1 Knock him down! 2
Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man! 3
10:5 Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead, 4
a cudgel with which I angrily punish. 5
13:5 They come from a distant land,
from the horizon. 6
It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, 7
coming to destroy the whole earth. 8
47:6 How long will you cry out, 9 ‘Oh, sword of the Lord,
how long will it be before you stop killing? 10
Go back into your sheath!
Stay there and rest!’ 11
47:7 But how can it rest 12
when I, the Lord, have 13 given it orders?
I have ordered it to attack
the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast. 14
51:20 “Babylon, 15 you are my war club, 16
my weapon for battle.
I used you to smash nations. 17
I used you to destroy kingdoms.
51:21 I used you to smash horses and their riders. 18
I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.
51:22 I used you to smash men and women.
I used you to smash old men and young men.
I used you to smash young men and young women.
51:23 I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks.
I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen.
I used you to smash governors and leaders.” 19