Jeremiah 51:31-33

Contemporary English Version

³¹One messenger after another
    announces to the king,
“Babylon has been captured!
³²The enemy now controls
    the river crossings!
The marshes^[a] are on fire!
    Your army has panicked!”

³³I am the Lord All-Powerful,
    the God of Israel,
and I make this promise—
“Soon Babylon will be leveled
    and packed down
like a threshing place
    at harvest time.”^[b]

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Footnotes

51.32 marshes: The tall grass in the marshes could have provided hiding places for people trying to escape from Babylon.
51.33 leveled … harvest time: A threshing place with a dirt surface had to be leveled and packed down before it could be used.