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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.
35 May the violence done to me
    and my flesh be on Babylon,”
        says the inhabitant of Zion.
“May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
    says Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

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