How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
The hammer image identifies Babylon as the power that had struck across the whole earth. Its being cut asunder and broken means that hammer-power would be cut down and shattered. In that shattering Babylon would be left broken and made a desolation among the nations. The verse therefore foretells the fall of Babylon.
The hammer image identifies Babylon as the power that had struck across the whole earth. Its being cut asunder and broken means that hammer-power would be cut down and shattered. In that shattering Babylon would be left broken and made a desolation among the nations. The verse therefore foretells the fall of Babylon.