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32 The fords have been captured,
    and the marshes burned with fire.
        The soldiers are terrified.
33 For this is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies,
    the God of Israel, says:
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
    at the time when it’s pounded down.[a]
In just a little while, the time of her harvest will come.”

Judah’s Complaint against Babylon

34 “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me
    and crushed me.
He set me down
    like an empty vessel.
He swallowed me like a monster,
    and filled his belly with my delicacies.
        Then he washed me away.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:33 I.e. threshing floors were pounded and smoothed in preparation for an upcoming harvest