Jeremiah 51:8
Jeremiah chapter 51 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Babylon 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!