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31 one runner runs to meet another runner,
    and one messenger to meet another messenger,
to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured,
    from end to end.[a]
32 And the fords have been seized,
    and the reed marshes have been burned with fire,
    and the soldiers[b] are horrified.

33 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel,

“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
    at the time it is trodden down,
just a little while[c]
    and the time of the harvest will come for her.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:31 Literally “from end”
  2. Jeremiah 51:32 Literally “the men of the war”
  3. Jeremiah 51:33 Literally “still a little”