Jeremiah 51:32 - New Revised Standard Version the fords have been seized, the marshes have been burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And that the passages [or ferries across the Euphrates] are stopped, and the great marshes they [the Medes] have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened. American Standard Version (1901) and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. Common English Bible The river crossings are blocked; the marshes are on fire; the soldiers are terrified. Catholic Public Domain Version and that the fords were seized in advance, and that the marshes have been burned with fire, and that the men of war have been set in disarray. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And that the fords are taken and the marshes are burnt with fire and the men of war are affrighted. |
See, they are like stubble, the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!
The warriors of Babylon have given up fighting, they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed, they have become women; her buildings are set on fire, her bars are broken.
One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end:
For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.
Then a breach was made in the city wall; and all the soldiers fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.