Jeremiah 51:33

KJV1611 – Modern English

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    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 a little while her harvest time will come.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes the God of Israel: The doughter of Babilon hath bene in hir tyme like as a thre?shinge floore, but shortly shal hir haruest come.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For thus sayth the Lorde of hosts the God of Israel, the daughter of Babel is like a threshing floore: the time of her threshing is come: yet a litle while, and the time of her haruest shal come.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon hath ben in her tyme lyke as a threshyng floore, but shortly shall her haruest come.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For thus says Yahweh 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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon `is' as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing -- yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,‘Fair Babylon will be like a threshing floor which has been trampled flat for harvest. The time for her to be cut down and harvested will come very soon.’

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 21:10 : 10 O my threshing and the grain of my floor: that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
  • Hos 6:11 : 11 Also, O Judah, he has set a harvest for you, when I return the captivity of my people.
  • Joel 3:13 : 13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 Behold, I will make you a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff. 16 You shall fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and you shall rejoice in the LORD, and shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Mic 4:13 : 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze, and you shall beat in pieces many people, and I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
  • Hab 3:12 : 12 You marched through the land in indignation; You threshed the heathen in anger.
  • Matt 13:30 : 30 Let 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 and bring it into my barn.
  • Matt 13:39 : 39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
  • Rev 14:15-20 : 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap; for the time has come for you to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 16 So he who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. 17 And another angel came out of the temple in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. 19 And the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses' bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs.
  • Isa 17:5-9 : 5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the corn, and reaps the ears with his arm; and it shall be like he who gathers ears in the Valley of Rephaim. 6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree: two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches, says the LORD God of Israel. 7 On that day a man shall look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect for the Holy One of Israel. 8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves or the images. 9 In that day his strong cities shall be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. 10 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants, and set them with strange slips: 11 In the day you shall make your plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.
  • Isa 18:5 : 5 For before the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
  • Amos 1:3 : 3 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with instruments of iron:

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    30Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, says the LORD.

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