32 The fords have been seized,(A)
the marshes set on fire,
and the soldiers are terrified.

33 For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says:

Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor
at the time it is trampled.(B)
In just a little while her harvest time will come.(C)

34 “Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me.
He has set me aside like an empty dish;
he has swallowed me like a sea monster;(D)
he filled his belly with my delicacies;
he has vomited me out,”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:34 Lit has rinsed me off

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