Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon has suddenly fallen; the nations are mockingly told to wail and seek balm for her, though healing is hopeless. Her collapse is swift and beyond remedy.

Cross-references · 19

• Isa 21:9Look, 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!”
• Jer 46:11Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
• Rev 14:8Then 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.”
• Jer 50:2“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 pieces.’
• Jer 48:20Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed.
• Rev 18:2And 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.
• Rev 18:17–19For in a single hour such fabulous wealth has been destroyed!” Every shipmaster, passenger, and sailor, and all who make their living from the sea, will stand at a distance
• Jer 48:31Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
• Jer 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
• Jer 30:12–15For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
• Isa 13:6–7Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
• Ezek 27:30–32They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.
• Dan 5:24Therefore He sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
• Rev 18:8–11Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
• Nah 3:19There 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?
• Isa 47:9These 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.
• Ezek 30:2“Son of man, prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Wail, ‘Alas for that day!’
• Jer 51:41How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
• Dan 5:31and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

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