Jeremiah 51:32 the river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
the river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified."

English Standard Version
the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.

New American Standard Bible
The fords also have been seized, And they have burned the marshes with fire, And the men of war are terrified.

King James Bible
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.

International Standard Version
The fords have been captured, and the marshes burned with fire. The soldiers are terrified.

American Standard Version
and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that the fords are taken, and the marshes are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

Darby Bible Translation
and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

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.

Cross References

Isaiah 47:14
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

Jeremiah 50:38
A drought is on her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad on their idols.

Jeremiah 51:31
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,

Jeremiah 51:33
For thus said 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.

Jeremiah 52:7
Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

51:1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secure her. Destruction comes when they did not think of it. Wherever we are, in the greatest depths, at the greatest distances, we are to remember the Lord our God; and in the times of the greatest fears and hopes, it is most needful to remember the Lord. The feeling excited by Babylon's fall is the same with the New Testament Babylon, Re 18:9,19. The ruin of all who support idolatry, infidelity, and superstition, is needful for the revival of true godliness; and the threatening prophecies of Scripture yield comfort in this view. The great seat of antichristian tyranny, idolatry, and superstition, the persecutor of true Christians, is as certainly doomed to destruction as ancient Babylon. Then will vast multitudes mourn for sin, and seek the Lord. Then will the lost sheep of the house of Israel be brought back to the fold of the good Shepherd, and stray no more. And the exact fulfilment of these ancient prophecies encourages us to faith in all the promises and prophecies of the sacred Scriptures.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

32. passages are stopped—The guarded fords of the Euphrates are occupied by the enemy (see on [1005]Jer 50:38).

reeds … burned—literally, "the marsh." After draining off the river, Cyrus "burned" the stockade of dense tree-like "reeds" on its banks, forming the outworks of the city's fortifications. The burning of these would give the appearance of the marsh or river itself being on "fire."