Jeremiah 51:31-33

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One courier runs to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To tell the ^[a]king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;
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And that the fords [across the Euphrates] have been blocked and [the ferries] seized,
And they have set the [great] marshes on fire,
And the men of war are terrified.

³³For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:

“The Daughter of Babylon is like a ^[b]threshing floor
At the time it is being trampled and prepared;
Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her.”

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Footnotes

Jeremiah 51:31 In 553 b.c. Belshazzar was named co-ruler of Babylon by his father, King Nabonidus, and reigned in that capacity until Babylon was conquered. In spite of this co-regency, Nabonidus is regarded historically as the last of the Babylonian kings. Belshazzar’s mother, Nitrocris, was the daughter of King Nebuchadnezzar.
Jeremiah 51:33 At harvest time the threshing floor had to be firmly trampled before the grain or seeds could be extracted with the flail. A flail consisted of a handle to which was attached a freely swinging stick or bar. In the Bible, the harvest is often used as metaphor for judgment.