Jeremiah 51:31

“One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,”

"One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end," - Jeremiah 51:31
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What does Jeremiah 51:31 mean?

Jeremiah 51:31 from the King James Version of the Bible reads, "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." This verse is part of a larger passage in the book of Jeremiah that contains…

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Jeremiah 51:31 - "One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,"
Jeremiah 51:51 - "We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house."
Numbers 31:51 - "And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels."
Jeremiah 51:61 - "And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;"
Jeremiah 51:18 - "They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish."
Jeremiah 51:60 - "So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon."
Jeremiah 51:38 - "They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps."
Genesis 31:51 - "And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;"
Jeremiah 31:31-33
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Jeremiah 51:32 - "And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted."
Jeremiah 51:37 - "And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant."
Jeremiah 51:42 - "The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof."
Jeremiah 51:4 - "Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets."
Jeremiah 51:54 - "A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:"
Jeremiah 51:40 - "I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats."
Jeremiah 51:64 - "And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah."
Jeremiah 51:49 - "As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth."
Jeremiah 51:8 - "Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed."
Jeremiah 51:26 - "And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 51:59 - "¶ The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince."
Jeremiah 51:41 - "How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!"
Jeremiah 51:21 - "And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider;"
Jeremiah 51:13 - "O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness."
Jeremiah 51:63 - "And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:"
Jeremiah 51:10 - "The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God."
Jeremiah 51:28 - "Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion."
"They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish." - Jeremiah 51:18
Jeremiah 51:19 - "The portion of Jacob is not like them; for he is the former of all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name."