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Jeremiah 51:32
Jeremiah 51:32 is verse 32 of Jeremiah chapter 51, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
King James Version
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
World English Bible
So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”
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Jeremiah 51:30–34 · Berean Standard Bible
30 The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
31 One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
32 The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
33 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Jeremiah 50:38A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
Isaiah 44:27who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
Jeremiah 51:30The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
Jeremiah 50:37A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.