17:13 Rise up, Lord!
Confront him!
Use your sword to rescue me from the wicked man!
10:5 Assyria, the club I use to vent my anger, is as good as dead,
a cudgel with which I angrily punish.
13:5 They come from a distant land,
from the horizon.
It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment,
coming to destroy the whole earth.
47:6 How long will you cry out,
how long will it be before you stop killing?
Go back into your sheath!
Stay there and rest!’
47:7 But how can it rest
when I, the Lord, have
I have ordered it to attack
the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.
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.”