32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds burnt with fire, and the men of war troubled.

33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, The daughter of Babel is like a threshingfloor: the time of her threshing is come: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest [a]shall come.

34 Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babel hath [b]devoured me, and destroyed me: he hath made me an empty vessel: he swallowed me up like a dragon: and filled his belly with my delicates, and hath cast me out.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:33 When she shall be cut up and threshed.
  2. Jeremiah 51:34 This is spoken in the person of the Jews bewailing their state and the cruelty of the Babylonians.

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