³¹ One runner runs to meet another,
    and one messenger to meet another,
to tell the king of Babylon
    that his city is taken from end to end:
³² the fords have been seized,
    the marshes have been burned with fire,
    and the soldiers are in panic.
³³ For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
Daughter Babylon is like a threshing-floor
    at the time when it is trodden;
yet a little while
    and the time of her harvest will come.