Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon will fall suddenly and be destroyed. 1 Wail for her! Give her medicine for her pain; perhaps she can be healed. 1

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

In Context

7Babylon was a golden cup in the hand of Yahweh that made all the world drunk; 1 nations drank her wine and became insane. 1

9'We wished to heal Babylon, but she is not healed. Let us all leave her and go away, 1 to our own land. For her guilt reaches up to the heavens; it is piled up to the clouds. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 21:9Here comes a chariot with a man and a pair of horsemen. 1 He calls out, “Babylon has fallen, fallen, 1 and all the carved figures of its gods are broken to the ground.” 1

Jeremiah 8:22Is there no medicine in Gilead? Is there no healer there? 1 Why will the healing of the daughter of my people not happen?

Jeremiah 46:11Go up to Gilead and obtain medicine, virgin daughter of Egypt. 1 It is useless that you put much medicine on yourself. There is no cure for you. 1

Jeremiah 48:31So I will howl a lament for Moab, and I will shout in sorrow for all of Moab. 1 I will lament for the people of Kir Hareseth. 1

Jeremiah 51:41How Babylon has been captured! So the praise of all the earth is seized. 1 How Babylon has become a ruined place among the nations. 1

Ezekiel 30:2“Son of man, prophesy and say, 'The Lord Yahweh says this: 1 Wail, “Woe is the coming day.” 1

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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