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32 And the fords have been seized,
    and the reed marshes have been burned with fire,
    and the soldiers[a] are horrified.

33 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,

“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
    at the time it is trodden down,
just a little while[b]
    and the time of the harvest will come for her.”
34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
    has devoured me and sucked me dry;
he has made me an empty vessel;
    he has swallowed me like the sea monster;
he has filled his belly with my delicacies;
    he has rinsed me.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:32 Literally “the men of the war”
  2. Jeremiah 51:33 Literally “still a little”