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Jeremiah 51:31-33
1599 Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 51:31-33
1599 Geneva Bible
31 A post shall run to meet the post, and a messenger to meet the messenger, to show the King of Babel, that his city is taken on a [a]side thereof,
32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds burnt with fire, and the men of war troubled.
33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, The daughter of Babel is like a threshingfloor: the time of her threshing is come: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest [b]shall come.
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- Jeremiah 51:31 By turning the course of the river one side was made open and the reeds that did grow in the water were destroyed, which Cyrus did by the counsel of Gobria and Gabatha Belshazzar’s captains.
- Jeremiah 51:33 When she shall be cut up and threshed.
Jeremiah 51:31-33
New International Version
Jeremiah 51:31-33
New International Version
31 One courier(A) follows another
and messenger follows messenger
to announce to the king of Babylon
that his entire city is captured,(B)
32 the river crossings seized,
the marshes set on fire,(C)
and the soldiers terrified.(D)”
33 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says:
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