Contradictions and Paradoxes in Jeremiah 51:33

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Jeremiah 51:33 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Jeremiah 51:33. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Jeremiah, God is saying that Babylon is like a field ready to be harvested, and soon it's time for it to be gathered and judged. This means that God is going to make things right and fair with Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:33: 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. [it is...: or, in the time that he thresheth her]

Contradiction with Jeremiah 51:39

This verse describes a time of feasting and drunkenness for the Babylonians, which contrasts the agricultural imagery and the impending harvest of destruction in Jeremiah 51:33.

Jeremiah 51:39: In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 50:2

Declares that Babylon is taken and her idols are confounded, which contrasts with the process of threshing and delay before destruction mentioned in Jeremiah 51:33.

Jeremiah 50:2: Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces. [set up: Heb. lift up]

Contradiction with Isaiah 13:19

States that Babylon will be like Sodom and Gomorrah, utterly overthrown, rather than likened to a threshing floor that needs time before the harvest of judgment as in Jeremiah 51:33.

Isaiah 13:19: And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. [as...: Heb. as the overthrowing]

Contradiction with Revelation 18:21

Babylon's fall is sudden and complete, depicted by a millstone thrown into the sea, which contrasts the gradual process of threshing described in Jeremiah 51:33.

Revelation 18:21: And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
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