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Jeremiah 51:9

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed. Forsake her, and let’s each go into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

We would haue cured Babel, but she could not be healed: forsake her, and let vs go euery one into his owne countrey: for her iudgement is come vp vnto heauen, and is lifted vp to ye cloudes.

Darby Translation

We have treated Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto the heavens, and is lifted up to the skies.

Young's Literal Translation

We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, For come unto the heavens hath its judgment, And it hath been lifted up unto the clouds.

Bible in Basic English

We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.

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Cross references

“forsake”

Jeremiah 50:16 Isaiah 13:14 Jeremiah 46:16 Jeremiah 8:20 Jeremiah 46:21 Isaiah 47:15

Jeremiah 50:16 · BSB

Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who wields the sickle at harvest time. In the face of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

Isaiah 13:14 · BSB

Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

Jeremiah 46:16 · BSB

They continue to stumble; indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, ‘Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.’

Jeremiah 8:20 · BSB

“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, but we have not been saved.”

Jeremiah 46:21 · BSB

Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them— the time of their punishment.

Isaiah 47:15 · BSB

This is what they are to you— those with whom you have labored and traded from youth— each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.

“her judgment”

Revelation 18:5 Ezra 9:6 Daniel 4:20–22 2 Chronicles 28:9

Revelation 18:5 · BSB

For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Ezra 9:6 · BSB

and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

Daniel 4:20–22 · BSB

The tree you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached the sky and was visible to all the earth,

2 Chronicles 28:9 · BSB

But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered th…

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

In context

8Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

10“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”

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