The passages are blocked, The reeds they have burned with fire, And the men of war are terrified.
Jeremiah 51:32
Surrounding context
51:31 One runner will run to meet another, And one messenger to meet another, To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on all sides;
51:32 The passages are blocked, The reeds they have burned with fire, And the men of war are terrified.
51:33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor When it is time to thresh her; Yet a little while And the time of her harvest will come."