Jeremías 51:33

33 Porque así dice el SEÑOR Todopoderoso, el Dios de Israel:«La bella Babilonia es como una eraen el momento de la trilla;¡ya le llega el tiempo de la cosecha!»

Jeremías 51:33 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 51:33

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel
"The Lord of hosts", the Lord God omnipotent, and can do all things; "the God of Israel", and therefore will plead their cause, and take vengeance on Babylon: the daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshing floor;
on which the nations of the earth had been threshed, or punished and destroyed; and now she was like a threshing floor, unto which should be gathered, and on which should be laid, her king, princes, and the people of the land, and be there beat and crushed to pieces. The Targum renders it the congregation of Babylon; and the Septuagint the houses of the king of Babylon; so the Arabic version: [it is] time to thresh her;
not the floor, but the sheaves on it: or, "it is the time to tread her" ^F21; as corn was trodden out by the oxen; or rather as threshing floors, being new laid with earth, were trodden, and so made hard and even, and by that means prepared for threshing against the harvest; when the corn would be ripe, cut down, and gathered in, and laid up, as follows: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come;
when she would be ripe for ruin, and God would, by his instruments, put in the sickle of his wrath, and cut her down, her king, her princes, her cities, and her people; see ( Revelation 14:15 Revelation 14:16 ) . The Targum is,

``and yet a very little while, and spoilers shall come to her.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 (hkyrdh te) "tempus calcandi eam", Pagninus, Calvin; "tempus calcare eam", Montanus; "eo tempore quo illa calcari solet", Piscator.

Jeremías 51:33 In-Context

31 Corre un emisario tras el otro;un mensajero sigue a otro mensajero,para anunciarle al rey de Babiloniaque toda la ciudad ha sido conquistada.

32 Los vados han sido ocupados,e incendiados los esteros;llenos de pánico quedaron los guerreros».

33 Porque así dice el SEÑOR Todopoderoso, el Dios de Israel:«La bella Babilonia es como una eraen el momento de la trilla;¡ya le llega el tiempo de la cosecha!»

34 «Nabucodonosor, el rey de Babilonia,me devoró, me confundió;me dejó como un plato vacío.Me tragó como un monstruo marino,con mis delicias se ha llenado el estómagopara luego vomitarme.

35 Dice Jerusalén:“¡Que recaiga sobre Babiloniala violencia que me hizo!”Dice la moradora de Sión:“¡Que mi sangre se derramesobre los babilonios!”»