Jeremiah 51:33

“For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, etc.] “The Lord of hosts”, the Lord God omnipotent, and can do all things; “the God of Israel”, and therefore will plead their cause, and take vengeance on Babylon: the daughter of Babylon [is] like a threshing floor; on which the nations of the earth had been threshed, or punished and destroyed; and now she was like a threshing floor, unto which should be gathered, and on which should be laid, her king, princes, and the people of the land, and be there beat and crushed to pieces. The Targum renders it the congregation of Babylon; and the Septuagint the houses of the king of Babylon; so the Arabic version: [it is] time to thresh her; not…”

“like a threshing-floor, it is time to thresh her--rather, "like a threshing-floor at the time of threshing," or "at the time when it is trodden." The treading, or threshing, here put before the harvest, out of the natural order, because the prominent thought is the treading down or destruction of Babylon. In the East the treading out of the corn took place only at harvest-time. Babylon is like a threshing-floor not trodden for a long time; but the time of harvest, when her citizens shall be trodden under foot, shall come [CALVIN]. "Like a threshing-floor full of corn, so is Babylon now full of riches, but the time of harvest shall come, when all her prosperity shall be cut off" [LUDOVICUS DE…”

“Translate, “The daughter of Babylon is as a threshing-floor at the time when it is trampled,” i. e., trodden hard in readiness for the threshing: “yet a little while and the harvest-time” shall come to her, i. e., overtake her. In the East, the grain when reaped is carried at once to the threshing-floor, a level spot carefully prepared beforehand, usually about 50 feet in diameter, and trampled hard. The grain after it has been beaten out by a sledge drawn over it by oxen is separated from the chaff and stored up in granaries. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Threshing floor - Babylon had been a threshing instrument, by which, and a threshing - floor in which God had threshed many other nations; God now intended to make it as a threshing - floor wherein he would thresh the Chaldeans. Tread her - So they used to prepare their threshing - floors against the time of harvest. The time - The harvest which the justice of God would have from the ruin of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 51:34”

“51:33 The wealth of the city was likened to wheat on a threshing floor; the looting of Babylon was like a harvest.”

“is like: Isa 21:10, Isa 41:15, Isa 41:16; Amo 1:3; Mic 4:13; Hab 3:12 it is time to thresh her: or, in the time that he thresheth her the time: Isa 17:5-11, Isa 18:5; Hos 6:11; Joe 3:13; Mat 13:30, Mat 13:39; Rev 14:15-20 Jeremiah 51:34”