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Jeremiah 51:32 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 51 · verse 32
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.Jeremiah 51:32 · King James Version
Jeremiah 51:32 in context
30The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31One 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,
32And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned 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 threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- passagesmaʻăbâra crossing-place (of a river, a fordH4569 →
- stoppedtâphasto manipulateH8610 →
- burnedsâraphto be on fireH8313 →
- reedsʼăgama marshH98 →
- fireʼêshfireH784 →
- warmilchâmâha battleH4421 →
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The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-58