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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31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

33 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

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