who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry,’ and I will dry up your rivers;
Jeremiah 51:32 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the fighting men are terrified. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry,’ and I will dry up your rivers;
Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!
Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, her gate bars are shattered.
Messenger races to meet messenger, and herald to meet herald, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
For this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Daughter Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.
Then the city was breached, and all the warriors fled. They left the city at night by way of the city gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.