World English Bible
"and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened."
— Jeremiah 51:32, World English Bible
“And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.”
“and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. ”
“They will report that the fords have been captured, the reed marshes have been burned, the soldiers are terrified.”
“And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.”
“And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.”
“And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.”
The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
For thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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.
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.