◄ Jeremiah 51:32 ►
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Good News Translation
The enemy have captured the river crossing and have set the fortresses on fire. The Babylonian soldiers have panicked.

New Revised Standard Version
the fords have been seized, the marshes have been burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.

Contemporary English Version
The enemy now controls the river crossings! The marshes are on fire! Your army has panicked!"

New American Bible
The fords have been seized, marshes set on fire, warriors panic.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

the passages

Jeremiah 50:38 A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

Isaiah 44:27 Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.

the near

Jeremiah 51:30 The valiant men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have dwelt in holds: their strength hath failed, and they are become as women: her dwelling places are burnt, her bars are broken.

Jeremiah 50:37 A sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the people that are in the midst of her: and they shall become as women: a sword upon her treasures, and they shall be made a spoil.

Context
Babylon's Punishment
…31One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other: 32And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.33For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.…
Cross References
Isaiah 47:14
Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.

Jeremiah 50:38
A drought upon her waters, and they shall be dried up: because it is a land of idols, and they glory in monstrous things.

Jeremiah 51:31
One running post shall meet another, and messenger shall meet messenger: to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from one end to the other:

Jeremiah 51:33
For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a thrashingfloor, this is the time of her thrashing: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

Jeremiah 52:7
And the city was broken up, and the men of war fled, and went out of the city in the night by the way of the gate that is between the two walls, and leadeth to the king's garden, (the Chaldeans besieging the city round about,) and they went by the way that leadeth to the wilderness.

Jeremiah 51:31
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