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Jeremiah 51:33

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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ASV

For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

KJV

For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּי֩kiforH3588 →
כֹ֨הkhohthusH3541 →
אָמַ֜ר'a.Marhe saysH559 →
יְהוָ֤הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
צְבָאוֹת֙tze.va.'Otof hostsH6635 →
אֱלֹהֵ֣י'e.lo.Hei[the] God ofH430 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478 →
בַּת־bat-[the] daughter ofH1323 →
בָּבֶ֕לba.VelBabylonH894 →
כְּגֹ֖רֶןke.Go.ren[will be] like a threshing floorH1637 →
עֵ֣ת'eta timeH6256 →
הִדְרִיכָ֑הּhid.ri.Khah[when] someone treads down itH1869 →
ע֣וֹדodyetH5750 →
מְעַ֔טme.'Ata littleH4592 →
וּבָ֥אָהu.Va.'ahand it will comeH935 →
עֵֽת־'et-[the] time ofH6256 →
הַקָּצִ֖ירha.ka.Tzirthe harvestH7105 →
לָֽהּ׃Lahto <the> it

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Revelation 14:15Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.”Isaiah 47:1“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.Isaiah 21:10O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.Isaiah 17:5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.Hosea 6:11Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.Joel 3:13Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.Revelation 14:15–20Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.”Micah 4:13Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.Isaiah 41:15–16Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.Isaiah 13:22Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.Haggai 2:6For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.Matthew 13:39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.Matthew 13:30Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”Amos 1:3This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.Isaiah 17:5–11as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.Habakkuk 3:12You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.Isaiah 49:19For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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