Jeremías 51:33

33 Esto dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales,
Dios de Israel:
«Babilonia es como el trigo en el campo de trillar
a punto de ser pisoteado.
Dentro de poco,
comenzará 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 Las noticias se transmiten de un mensajero al otro,
al paso que los mensajeros se apuran a avisarle al rey
que la ciudad ha sido tomada.

32 Se han cortado todas las rutas de fuga.
Los pantanos están en llamas
y el ejército se llenó de pánico.

33 Esto dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales,
Dios de Israel:
«Babilonia es como el trigo en el campo de trillar
a punto de ser pisoteado.
Dentro de poco,
comenzará la cosecha».

34 «Nabucodonosor,
rey de Babilonia, nos devoró, nos aplastó
y nos dejó sin fuerzas.
Nos tragó como un gran monstruo
y llenó su barriga con nuestras riquezas.
Nos echó de nuestro propio país.

35 Hagan que Babilonia sufra como nos hizo sufrir a nosotros
—dice la gente de Sión—.
Hagan que el pueblo de Babilonia pague por derramar nuestra sangre»,
dice Jerusalén.