“Look how the oppressor has met his end!
Hostility
14:5 The Lord has broken the club of the wicked,
the scepter of rulers.
52:7 “Look, here is the man who would not make
He trusted in his great wealth
and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”
50:23 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!
51:20 “Babylon,
my weapon for battle.
I used you to smash nations.
I used you to destroy kingdoms.
51:21 I used you to smash horses and their riders.
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.”