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Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed, no longer a golden cup, but a fragile glass; howl for her, make a lamentation for her; take balm for her pain, a balsam to heal her bruises, if so be she may be healed, if there is still a possibility of effecting a cure. But the representatives of the various nations assembled in Babylon state that their attempts are vain.

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See also Jeremiah 51:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 51:8. _BABYLON IS SUDDENLY FALLEN AND DESTROYED_] These appear to be the words of some of the spectators of Babylon's misery....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DESTROYED - literally, broken, as was the hammer Jeremiah 50:23. The cup, though of metal, is thrown down so violently as to be shattered by the fall. HOWL FOR HER - The persons addressed are the many...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon, her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the statement “thus far are the words of Jere...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:58. BABYLON. This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah an...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IS SUDDENLY, &C. This must refer to. future fulfilment, for the present condition came gradually, See Isaiah 21:9; Isaiah 47:9; Isaiah 47:11. Compare...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _take balm_ See on Jeremiah 46:11....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. An Exhortation to Israel Jeremiah 51:6-10 TRANSLATION (6) Flee from the midst of Babylon! Let everyone save his life! Perish not because of her guilt! For it is the time of the vengeance of the LO...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 HE...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:8 ruined. (a-6) Or 'crushed.' see ch. 8.21....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BABYLON IS SUDDENLY FALLEN... — The form of announcement seems taken in part from Isaiah 21:9. TAKE BALM FOR HER PAIN... — The words are significant. The captive people are not invited simply to raise...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    פִּתְאֹ֛ם נָפְלָ֥ה בָבֶ֖ל וַ תִּשָּׁבֵ֑ר הֵילִ֣ילוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:1 "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."- Jeremiah 50:2 THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to those of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Suddenly. She has not lost many battles; but is fallen at once from being the greatest city of the East._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Again I beg the Reader to remark, how the Lord points to his discriminating grace. The portion of Jacob is not like others. This people, saith Jehovah, I have formed for myself, they shall show forth...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet now declares that the fall of Babylon would be sudden, that the faithful might understand that God could accomplish in one moment what he had decreed. For when the prophets spoke of God’s...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BABYLON IS SUDDENLY FALLEN AND DESTROYED,.... Or "broken" g; even into shivers, as a cup is; for when it had been used to answer the purposes designed by the Lord, he let it fall cut of his hands at o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. Ver. 8. _Babylon is suddenly fallen._] Jeremiah 50:2. So _ruet alto a culmine Roma_ So Rome...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Babylon is suddenly fallen_ It was one of the aggravations of the punishment of Babylon, that her destruction came upon her suddenly and unexpectedly. _Howl for her_, &c. So the kings, the merchants,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secur...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That is, she shall suddenly fall and be destroyed; you may try all the probable ways for her cure, but they will all be used to no purpose....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:8 Babylon H894 suddenly H6597 fallen H5307 (H8804) destroyed H7665 (H8735) Wail H3213 (H8685) Take...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S VENGEANCE ON BABYLON AND THE VINDICATION OF ISRAEL/JUDAH (JEREMIAH 51:1). The proclamation of the certainty of YHWH's coming judgment on Babylon, and on all that it stands for, continues. While...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon, continued. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah. CONCLUSION: Let no nation think it will exempt them from God's judgment that they have been execu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 51:7. _Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah._ All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, applaud...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For _Chronological Notes,_ see foregoing chapter. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 51:27. “_The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas_.” These nations of Western As...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 51:1 AGAINST THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. The Hebrew has _lēb-kāmai_, which is _Kasdim_, or _Chaldea, _written in the cypher called Athbash (see...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 5:24; Daniel 5:31; Ezekiel 27:30; Ezekiel 30:2; Isaiah 13:6;...

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