Jeremiah 51:8 “Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her…”

Jeremiah 51:8

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Babel is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howle for her, bring balme for her sore, if she may be healed.

Darby Translation

Babylon is suddenly fallen and ruined. Howl over her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Young's Literal Translation

Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.

Bible in Basic English

Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

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Cross references

“suddenly”

Isaiah 21:9 Revelation 14:8 Jeremiah 50:2 Revelation 18:2 Jeremiah 51:41 Isaiah 47:9

Isaiah 21:9 · BSB

Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

Revelation 14:8 · BSB

Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

Jeremiah 50:2 · BSB

“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pi…

Revelation 18:2 · BSB

And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

Jeremiah 51:41 · BSB

How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Isaiah 47:9 · BSB

These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

“howl”

Jeremiah 48:20 Jeremiah 48:31 Ezekiel 27:30–32 Ezekiel 30:2 Daniel 5:24 Daniel 5:31

Jeremiah 48:20 · BSB

Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.

Jeremiah 48:31 · BSB

Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

Ezekiel 27:30–32 · BSB

They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.

Ezekiel 30:2 · BSB

“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ‘Alas for that day!’

Daniel 5:24 · BSB

Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

Daniel 5:31 · BSB

and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

“take balm”

Jeremiah 46:11 Jeremiah 8:22 Jeremiah 30:12–15 Nahum 3:19

Jeremiah 46:11 · BSB

Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.

Jeremiah 8:22 · BSB

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Jeremiah 30:12–15 · BSB

For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Nahum 3:19 · BSB

There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.

9“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

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