Jeremiah 51:32-36

32 the river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.”

33 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled; the time to harvest her will soon come.”

34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar. Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.

35 May the violence done to our flesh^[a] be on Babylon,” say the inhabitants of Zion. “May our blood be on those who live in Babylonia,” says Jerusalem.

36 Therefore this is what the LORD says: “See, I will defend your cause and avenge you; I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.

Jeremiah 51:32-36 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 51

The former part of this chapter is a continuation of the prophecy of the preceding chapter, concerning the destruction of Babylon, Jer 51:1-58; the latter part of it contains a prophecy of Jeremiah sent to the captives in Babylon by the hand of Seraiah, with the copy of the above prophecy against Babylon, and an order to fasten a stone to it, and cast it into the river Euphrates, as a sign, confirming the utter and irreparable ruin of Babylon, Jer 51:59-64.

Cross References

• 1. S Isaiah 47:14
• 2. S Jeremiah 50:36
• 3. S Isaiah 47:1
• 4. S Isaiah 21:10
• 5. S Isaiah 17:5; Hosea 6:11
• 6. S Isaiah 13:22
• 7. S Jeremiah 50:17
• 8. Nahum 2:12
• 9. Hosea 8:8
• 10. ver 44; S Leviticus 18:25
• 11. Joel 3:19; Habakkuk 2:17
• 12. S ver 24; Psalms 137:8
• 13. Psalms 140:12; Jeremiah 50:34; Lamentations 3:58
• 14. ver 6; Jeremiah 20:12; S Romans 12:19
• 15. S Isaiah 11:15; S Isaiah 19:5; Hosea 13:15; Jeremiah 50:38

Footnotes

• [a] Or "done to us and to our children"