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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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In The King James Version

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.

In Context

7Babylon is a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, inebriating the entire earth. The nations have drunk from her wine, and therefore they have staggered.

9“We would have cured Babylon, but there is no cure. Let us abandon her, and let each one of us go to his own land. For her judgment has reached even to the heavens, and has been lifted up even to the clouds.

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Cross References

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 →

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