Jeremiah 51:32 - Revised Version 1885 and the passages are surprised, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. 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. |
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strong holds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.