Jeremiah 51:8 Cross References - BBE

⁸ Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.

⁶ Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High. ⁷ For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

⁹ See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth.

⁹ But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and of husband: in full measure they will come on you, for all your secret arts, and all your wonders.

²² Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

¹² For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter. ¹³ There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well. ¹⁴ Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment; ¹⁵ Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

¹¹ Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.

²⁰ Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

³¹ For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.

² Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.

⁴¹ How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!

³⁰ And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust: ³¹ And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow. ³² And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?

² Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!

²⁴ Then the part of the hand was sent out from before him, and this writing was recorded.

³¹ And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being then about sixty-two years old.

¹⁹ Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?

⁸ And a second angel came after, saying, Destruction has come to Babylon the great, which gave to all the nations the wine of the wrath of her evil ways.

² And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird.

⁸ For this reason in one day will her troubles come, death and sorrow and need of food; and she will be completely burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who is her judge. ⁹ And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged. ¹¹ And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods,

¹⁷ For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away, ¹⁸ And crying out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What town is like the great town? ¹⁹ And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, in which was increased the wealth of all who had their ships on the sea because of her great stores! for in one hour she is made waste.