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Jeremiah 51:9

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

Darby Translation

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 ruined. Howl over her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

10Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:9But a prophet of Jehovah was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because Jehovah the God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he gave them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

Isaiah 13:14And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into 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 fatted bullocks; for they also have turned back, they have fled away together, they did not stand; for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

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

Revelation 18:5for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.

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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