Jeremiah 51:32

and The fords, have been seized, and The reeds, have they burned with fire; and The men of war, are dismayed!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

31Runner to meet runner, shall they run, And teller to meet teller,-To tell the king of Babylon, That captured is his city at the end!

33For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon, is like a threshing, floor at the time of treading her: Yet a little, and the time of harvest shall overtake her.

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Cross References

Isaiah 44:27Who saith to the deep—Be dry and Thy rivers, will I drain!

Jeremiah 51:30The heroes of Babylon have ceased to fight They have remained in the strongholds, Parched is their might, They have become women,—They have set fire to her habitations, Broken are her bars!

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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