Jeremiah 51:32
30 The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
31 One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
33 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
- KJV
- And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
- WEB
- So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”
- ASV
- and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
- DARBY
- and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
- BLB
- the fords have been seized, and the marshes they have burned with fire, and the men of war are terrified.”
- ÅB
- vadestedene er i fiendens vold, vanndammene uttørket med ild, og krigsmennene forferdet.
- OTB
- Havet har steget opp over Babylon; Hun er dekket med sine brølende bølger.
- B1930
- vadestedene er i fiendens vold, vanndammene uttørket med ild, og krigsmennene forferdet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 51:30
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:27
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
Read in contextJeremiah 50:37–38
A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
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