Jeremiah 51:32
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
In context
30 The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
31 One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
32 The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
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.”
34 “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
Jeremiah 51:32 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
- KJV King James Version
- And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
- WEB World English Bible
- So the passages are seized. They have burned the reeds with fire. The men of war are frightened.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.
- DBY Darby Translation
- and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.