Jeremiah 51:9

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

10Yahweh has declared our innocence. Come, let us tell in Zion 1 the deeds of Yahweh our God.' 1

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 28:9But a prophet of Yahweh was there, his name was Oded. He went out to meet the army coming into Samaria. He said to them, “Because Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reached up to heaven.

Isaiah 13:14Like a hunted gazelle or like a sheep with no shepherd, 1 every man will turn toward his own people and will flee to his own land. 1

Jeremiah 8:20The harvest has passed on, summer is over. But we have not been saved. 1

Jeremiah 46:21The hired soldiers in her midst are like a fattened bull, but they will also turn away and run away. 1 They will not stand together, for the day of their disaster is coming against them, the time of their punishment. 1

Daniel 4:20The tree that you saw—which grew and became strong, and whose top reached up to the heavens, and which could be seen to the ends of the whole earth—

Revelation 18:5Her sins have piled up as high as heaven, 2 and God has remembered her evil actions. 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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