Jeremiah 51:8
Suddenly, Babylon has fallen and been crushed. Wail over her! Take a balm to her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.”
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Isaiah 21:9Behold, a certain man approaches, a man riding on a two-horse chariot.” And he responded, and he said: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! And all its graven gods have been crushed into the earth!
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Or is there no physician there? Then why has the wound of the daughter of my people not been closed?”
Jeremiah 46:11Ascend to Gilead, and take its balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! It is in vain that you multiply medicines; there will be no health for you!
Jeremiah 48:31For this reason, I will wail over Moab, and I will cry out to all of Moab, to the men on the brick wall who are lamenting.
Jeremiah 51:41How was Sesac captured, and how was the renowned one of all the earth seized? How has Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
Ezekiel 30:2“Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Wail: ‘Woe, woe to the day!’
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 →