Jeremiah 51:21

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
With you I will smash the horse and its rider;with you I will smash the chariot and its rider.

Hebrew Names Version
and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

King James Version
And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;

English Standard Version
with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;

New American Standard Bible
"With you I shatter the horse and his rider, And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,

New Century Version
I use you to smash horses and riders. I use you to smash chariots and drivers.

Amplified Bible
"With you I shatter the horse and his rider, With you I shatter the chariot and its driver,

World English Bible
and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And by thee wil I breake horse and horseman, and by thee will I breake the charet & him that rideth therein.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"With you I shatter the horse and his rider, And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,

Legacy Standard Bible
With you I shatter the horse and his rider,And with you I shatter the chariot and its rider,

Berean Standard Bible
With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.

Contemporary English Version
to shatter cavalry and chariots,

Complete Jewish Bible
with you I shatter horses and their riders; with you I shatter chariots and their drivers;

Darby Translation
and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot and its driver;

Easy-to-Read Version
I used you to smash horse and rider. I used you to smash chariot and driver.

George Lamsa Translation
And with you I will scatter horses and their riders, and with you I will scatter chariots and their riders,

Good News Translation
to shatter horses and riders, to shatter chariots and their drivers,

Lexham English Bible
And I smash the horse with you, and its rider, and I smash the chariot with you, and its rider.

Literal Translation
And with you I will shatter the horse and his rider, and with you I will shatter the chariot and his charioteer.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thorow the haue I scatred horse & horseman, yee the charettes, & soch as sat vpon them:

American Standard Version
and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

Bible in Basic English
With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And with thee will I shatter the horse and his rider, and with thee will I shatter the chariot and him that rideth therein;

King James Version (1611)
And with thee will I breake in pieces the horse and his rider, and with thee will I breake in pieces the charet, and his rider;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Through thee I haue beaten to powder horse and horsemen, yea the charrettes and such as sate vpon them.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Did not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart?

English Revised Version
and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y schal hurtle doun in thee an hors, and the ridere therof; and Y schal hurtle doun in thee a chare, and the stiere therof;

Update Bible Version
and with you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider;

Webster's Bible Translation
And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and its rider;

New English Translation
I used you to smash horses and their riders. I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.

New King James Version
With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider; With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;

New Living Translation
With you I will shatter armies— destroying the horse and rider, the chariot and charioteer.

New Life Bible
With you I break in pieces the horse and its rider.

New Revised Standard
with you I smash the horse and its rider; with you I smash the chariot and the charioteer;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Beat down with thee - the horse and his rider, - and Beat down with thee - the chariot and its rider;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And with thee I will break in pieces the horse, and his rider, and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot, and him that getteth up into it:

Revised Standard Version
with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;

Young's Literal Translation
And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer,

Contextual Overview

¹There's more. God says more: "Watch this: I'm whipping up A death-dealing hurricane against Babylon—‘Hurricane Persia'— against all who live in that perverse land. I'm sending a cleanup crew into Babylon. They'll clean the place out from top to bottom. When they get through there'll be nothing left of her worth taking or talking about. They won't miss a thing. A total and final Doomsday! Fighters will fight with everything they've got. It's no-holds-barred. They will spare nothing and no one. It's final and wholesale destruction—the end! Babylon littered with the wounded, streets piled with corpses. It turns out that Israel and Judah are not widowed after all. As their God, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, I am still alive and well, committed to them even though They filled their land with sin against Israel's most Holy God. ⁶"Get out of Babylon as fast as you can. Run for your lives! Save your necks! Don't linger and lose your lives to my vengeance on her as I pay her back for her sins. Babylon was a fancy gold chalice held in my hand, Filled with the wine of my anger to make the whole world drunk. The nations drank the wine and they've all gone crazy. Babylon herself will stagger and crash, senseless in a drunken stupor—tragic! Get anointing balm for her wound. Maybe she can be cured." ⁹ "We did our best, but she can't be helped. Babylon is past fixing. Give her up to her fate. Go home. The judgment on her will be vast, a skyscraper-memorial of vengeance. ¹⁰ " God has set everything right for us. Come! Let's tell the good news Back home in Zion. Let's tell what our God did to set things right. ¹¹"Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! God has stirred up the kings of the Medes, infecting them with war fever: ‘Destroy Babylon!' God 's on the warpath. He's out to avenge his Temple. Give the signal to attack Babylon's walls. Station guards around the clock. Bring in reinforcements. Set men in ambush. God will do what he planned, what he said he'd do to the people of Babylon. You have more water than you need, you have more money than you need— But your life is over, your lifeline cut." ¹⁴ God -of-the-Angel-Armies has solemnly sworn: "I'll fill this place with soldiers. They'll swarm through here like locusts chanting victory songs over you." ¹⁵By his power he made earth. His wisdom gave shape to the world. He crafted the cosmos. He thunders and rain pours down. He sends the clouds soaring. He embellishes the storm with lightnings, launches the wind from his warehouse. Stick-god worshipers look mighty foolish! god-makers embarrassed by their handmade gods! Their gods are frauds, dead sticks— deadwood gods, tasteless jokes. They're nothing but stale smoke. When the smoke clears, they're gone. But the Portion-of-Jacob is the real thing; he put the whole universe together, With special attention to Israel. His name? God -of-the-Angel-Armies! ²⁰God says, "You, Babylon, are my hammer, my weapon of war. I'll use you to smash godless nations, use you to knock kingdoms to bits. I'll use you to smash horse and rider, use you to smash chariot and driver. I'll use you to smash man and woman, use you to smash the old man and the boy. I'll use you to smash the young man and young woman, use you to smash shepherd and sheep. I'll use you to smash farmer and yoked oxen, use you to smash governors and senators. ²⁴ "Judeans, you'll see it with your own eyes. I'll pay Babylon and all the Chaldeans back for all the evil they did in Zion." God 's Decree. ²⁵"I'm your enemy, Babylon, Mount Destroyer, you ravager of the whole earth. I'll reach out, I'll take you in my hand, and I'll crush you till there's no mountain left. I'll turn you into a gravel pit— no more cornerstones cut from you, No more foundation stones quarried from you! Nothing left of you but gravel." God 's Decree.

Bible Verse Review
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Jeremiah 50:37, Exodus 15:1, Exodus 15:21, Psalms 46:9, Psalms 76:6, Ezekiel 39:20, Micah 5:10, Nahum 2:13, Haggai 2:22, Zechariah 10:5, Zechariah 12:4, Revelation 19:18

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:25 - took off Esther 8:10 - by posts Ezekiel 21:31 - and skilful

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider,.... Or, "have broken": meaning the cavalry of an army, wherein lies its chief strength:

and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; which were also used in war.