33 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
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Jeremiah 51:33
Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates
The chapter moves from the LORD stirring up destroyers against Babylon, to the command for Israel to flee, to Babylon’s image as a shattered golden cup, to the LORD’s vengeance for Zion, to a creation-theology contrast between the LORD and idols, to Babylon as the LORD’s war club now judged, to repeated announcements of Babylon’s desolation, to pastoral exhortations for exiles not to lose heart, and finally to Seraiah’s symbolic sinking of the scroll in the Euphrates.
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Verse 33
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For כִּי֩ H3588 Conjunction this is what כֹ֨ה H3541 Adverb the LORD יְהוָ֤ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular of Hosts צְבָאוֹת֙ H6635 Noun - common plural the God אֱלֹהֵ֣י H430 Noun - masculine plural construct of Israel יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל H3478 Noun - proper - masculine singular says אָמַ֜ר H559 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular The Daughter בַּת־ H1323 Noun - feminine singular construct of Babylon בָּבֶ֕ל H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular is like a threshing floor כְּגֹ֖רֶן H1637 Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular at the time עֵ֣ת H6256 Noun - common singular it is trampled הִדְרִיכָ֑הּ H1869 Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular In just a little while ע֣וֹד H5750 Adverb . . . מְעַ֔ט H4592 Adjective - masculine singular her harvest הַקָּצִ֖יר H7105 Article | Noun - masculine singular time עֵֽת־ H6256 Noun - common singular construct will come וּבָ֥אָה H935 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular