How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder...! — The image had been used before (Jeremiah 23:29) of the might of right as seen in the words of Jehovah. Here it describes the right of might as seen in the despotism of Babylon. The name of Charles Martel and, according to one etymology, that of Judas Maccabæus, present interesting parallelisms. And now the hammer itself, which had been as an instrument in the hand of Jehovah (Jeremiah 51:20), is to be, in its turn, crushed by a power mightier than its own.
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Jeremiah 50:23
23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!