Jeremiah 51:33
For thus says the Lord 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.
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Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
Isaiah 41:15Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth.You will thresh the mountains,and beat them small,and will make the hills like chaff.
Joel 3:13Put in the sickle;for the harvest is ripe.Come, tread, for the winepress is full,the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."
Micah 4:12But they do not know the thoughts of the Lord,neither do they understand his counsel;for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.
Habakkuk 3:12You marched through the land in wrath.You threshed the nations in anger.
Matthew 13:39and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and 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 →