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31 Runners run to meet runners.
Messengers follow messengers.
They inform the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured.
32 The river crossings have been taken.
The enemy has burned its marshes,
and its soldiers are terrified.

33 This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says:

The people of Babylon are like a threshing floor [a]
at the time it is trampled.
Their harvest time will come soon.

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Footnotes

  1. 51:33 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.

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:

“Daughter Babylon(E) is like a threshing floor(F)
    at the time it is trampled;
    the time to harvest(G) her will soon come.(H)

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