Jeremiah 51:32

So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”

World English Bible Classic

In The King James Version

And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

In Context

31One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter.

33For 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.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 44:27who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers,’

Jeremiah 51:30The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.

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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