Jeremiah 51:33

For Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor. 1 It is time to trample her down. In a little while the time of harvest will come to her. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

32So the fords over the river are seized; the enemy is burning the reed marshes, 1 and Babylon's fighting men are confused. 1

34'Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, 1 he has driven me into confusion and has made me an empty pot. 1 Like a monster he has swallowed me, 1 he has filled his stomach with my delicious foods, 1 and then he has spit me out.' 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 18:5Before the harvest, when the blossoming is over, and the flower is ripening into a grape, 1 he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches. 1

Isaiah 41:15Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and two-edged; 1 you will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like chaff. 1

Joel 3:13Put in the sickle, 1 for the harvest is ripe. 1 Come, crush the grapes, 1 for the winepress is full. 1 The vats overflow, 1 for their wickedness is enormous.” 1

Micah 4:12They do not know Yahweh's thoughts, 1 neither do they understand his plans, 1 for he has gathered them like bundles of grain prepared for the threshing floor. 1

Habakkuk 3:12You have marched over the earth with indignation. In wrath you have threshed the nations. 1

Matthew 13:39and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →

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