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Jeremiah 51:33
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31 aOne runner will run to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides; 
32 aThe passages are blocked,
The reeds they have burned with fire,
And the men of war are terrified.  
33 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
“The daughter of Babylon is alike a threshing floor
When bit is time to thresh her;
Yet a little while
cAnd the time of her harvest will come.” 
34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has adevoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an bempty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out. 
35 Let the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”
Jerusalem will say.
36 Therefore thus says the Lord:
“Behold, aI will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
bI will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. 
37 aBabylon shall become a heap,
A dwelling place for jackals,
bAn astonishment and a hissing,
Without an inhabitant. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Jeremiah 51:33

like a threshing-floor, it is time to thresh her—rather, "like a threshing-floor at the time of threshing," or "at the time when it is trodden." The treading, or threshing, here put before the harvest, out of the natural order, because the prominent thought is the treading down or destruction of Babylon. In the East the treading out of the corn took place only at harvest-time. Babylon is like a threshing-floor not trodden for a long time; but the time of harvest, when her citizens shall be trodden under foot, shall come [CALVIN]. "Like a threshing-floor full of corn, so is Babylon now full of riches, but the time of harvest shall come, when all her prosperity shall be cut off" [LUDOVICUS DE DIEU]. GROTIUS distinguishes the "harvest" from the "threshing"; the former is the slaying of her citizens, the latter the pillaging and destruction of the city (compare Joel 3:13; Revelation 14:15, Revelation 14:18).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 51:33:

2 Kings 13:7
Isaiah 21:10
Isaiah 47:6
Hosea 6:11
Joel 3:13
Micah 4:12

 

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