Jeremiah 51:8
Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Isaiah 21:9Behold this man cometh, the rider upon the chariot with two horsemen, and he answered, and said: Babylon is fallen, she is fallen, and all the graven gods thereof are broken unto the ground.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Galaad? or is no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?
Jeremiah 46:11Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.
Jeremiah 48:31Therefore will I lament for Moab, and I will cry out to all Moab, for the men of the brick wall that mourn.
Jeremiah 51:41How is Sesach taken, and the renowned one of all the earth surprised? How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations?
Ezekiel 30:2Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, 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 →