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Jeremiah 51:33

Babylon
Judgment

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.

32 The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

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.

35 May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

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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.

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BSB
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.”
KJV
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
WEB
For the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden. Yet a little while, and the time of harvest comes for her.”
ASV
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
DARBY
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time of its being trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
BLB
For thus says YHWH of Hosts, the God of Israel: “The daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshing floor at the time it is tread; yet a little while and will come the time of the harvest for her!”
ÅB
For så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Babels datter er som en treskeplass når den blir stampet hård; enda en liten stund, så kommer høstens tid for henne.
OTB
«‘Hennes byer har blitt en ødeleggelse, Et tørt land og ørken, et land der ingen bor, Heller ikke passerer noen av menneskeheten forbi.
B1930
For så sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud: Babels datter er som en treskeplass når den blir stampet hård; ennu en liten stund, så kommer høstens tid for henne.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 21:10

    O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.

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  • Joel 3:13

    Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

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  • Hosea 6:11

    Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.

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  • Revelation 14:15–20

    Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.”

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  • Isaiah 41:15–16

    Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

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  • Micah 4:13

    Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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  • Habakkuk 3:12

    You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

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  • Isaiah 18:5

    For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.

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