Jeremiah 51:8-9

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

Howl for her: take balm for her pain ... we would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go. Her friends and confederates, who behold her fall, are invited to her aid. They reply, her case is incurable, and that they must leave her to her fate.

Verse 8. (; ; ; ).

Balm - (; ).

Verse 9. We would have healed Babylon - we attempted to heal.

Her judgment - her sins provoking God's "judgments" (Grotius).

Reacheth unto heaven - (; ; ). Even the pagan nations perceive that her awful fall must be God's judgment for her crying sins (; ).