Jeremiah 51:8
Babel is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howle for her, bring balme for her sore, if she may be healed.
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Isaiah 21:9And beholde, this mans charet commeth with two horsemen. And he answered and said, Babel is fallen: it is fallen, and all the images of her gods hath he broken vnto the ground.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balme at Gilead? is there no Physition there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered.
Jeremiah 46:11Goe vp vnto Gilead, and take balme, O virgine, the daughter of Egypt: in vaine shalt thou vse many medicines: for thou shalt haue no health.
Jeremiah 48:31Therefore will I howle for Moab, and I will crie out for all Moab: mine heart shall mourne for the men of Kir-heres.
Jeremiah 51:41How is Sheshach taken! and howe is the glory of the whole earth taken! how is Babel become an astonishment among the nations!
Ezekiel 30:2Sonne of man, prophesie, and say, Thus sayth the Lord God, Howle and cry, Wo be vnto this 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 →