Jeremiah 51:8

Jeremiah chapter 51 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

v.8This passage

v.9We 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 13:6

    Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

  • Nahum 3:19

    There is no assuaging of thy hurt; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

  • Revelation 18:2

    And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.

  • Jeremiah 46:11

    Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.

  • Isaiah 21:9

    and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.

  • Ezekiel 30:2

    Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Wail ye, Alas for the day!