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I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
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The Winnowing Strangers
Scholars note a clever wordplay in the original Hebrew. The word for the invaders can mean both "strangers" and "winnowers." God is sending foreign enemies (the Medes and Persians) who will act like farmers winnowing grain—violently shaking and scattering the people of Babylon like worthless chaff in the wind, leaving the land empty.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Fanners - Or, winnowers.
19th Century
Anglican
Fanners, that shall fan her. —The Hebrew word as it stands means “strangers,” but a change of the vowel-points would etym…
16th Century
Protestant
Here he explains himself more clearly, without the metaphor he had previously used. He no longer uses the likeness of wind when he declares that he…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will send unto Babylon farmers, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land Or…
The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…
