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Jeremiah 51:9

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each one into his own country. For her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

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In The King James Version

We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

In Context

8Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Wail for her. Take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

10LORD has brought forth our righteousness. Come, and let us declare in Zion the work of LORD our God.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:9But a prophet of LORD was there, whose name was Oded. And he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, because LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your han

Isaiah 13:14And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

Jeremiah 8:20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Jeremiah 46:21Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall, for they also are turned back. They have fled away together. They did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their visitation.

Daniel 4:20The tree that thou saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to heaven, and the sight of it to all the earth,

Revelation 18:5Because her sins have reached as far as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59

The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →

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