Jeremiah 51:8

Bible in Basic English

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.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;Wail over her!Take balm for her pain;Perhaps she may be healed.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; Wail over her! Bring balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But sodaynly is Babylon fallen and destroyed: mourne for her, bryng plasters for her woundes, yf she may peraduenture be healed agayne.

Darby Translation
Babylon is suddenly fallen and ruined. Howl over her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

New King James Version
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

Literal Translation
Suddenly Babylon has fallen, and it is broken. Wail for her, take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.

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

King James Version (1611)
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howle for her, take balme for her paine, if so be she may be healed.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But sodenly is Babilon fallen, and destroyed. Mourne for her, brynge plasters for hir woundes, yf she maye peraduenture be healed agayne.

Amplified Bible
Babylon has suddenly fallen and is shattered! Wail for her [if you care to]! Get balm for her [incurable] pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

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

Revised Standard Version
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

Update Bible Version
Babylon has suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.

Webster's Bible Translation
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, it may be she may be healed.

New Century Version
Babylon has suddenly fallen and been broken. Cry for her! Get balm for her pain, and maybe she can be healed.

New English Translation
But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed. Cry out in mourning over it! Get medicine for her wounds! Perhaps she can be healed!

Contemporary English Version
But suddenly, Babylon will fall and be destroyed. I, the Lord , told the foreigners who lived there, "Weep for the city! Get medicine for its wounds; maybe they will heal."

Complete Jewish Bible
Bavel has suddenly fallen. She is broken; wail for her. Bring healing ointment for her wounds; perhaps she can be healed.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Babel is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howle for her, bring balme for her sore, if she may be healed.

George Lamsa Translation
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed; wail for her, take balm for her wound; perhaps she may be healed.

Hebrew Names Version
Bavel is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed, wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

New Living Translation
But suddenly Babylon, too, has fallen. Weep for her. Give her medicine. Perhaps she can yet be healed.

New Life Bible
All at once Babylon has fallen and been broken. Cry over her with a loud voice. Bring healing oil for her pain. It may be that she will be healed.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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

Berean Standard Bible
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.

New Revised Standard
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and is shattered; wail for her! Bring balm for her wound; perhaps she may be healed.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Suddenly, hath Babylon fallen and been broken, - Howl ye over her Fetch balsam for her pain, Peradventure she shall be healed!

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

Lexham English Bible
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and she is shattered. Wail over her! Take balm for her wounds, perhaps she may be healed.

Easy-to-Read Version
But Babylon will suddenly fall and be broken. Cry for her! Get medicine for her pain, and maybe she can be healed.

English Standard Version
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.

New American Standard Bible
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; Wail over her! Bring balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed.

Good News Translation
Babylonia has suddenly fallen and is destroyed! Mourn over it! Get medicine for its wounds, and maybe it can be healed.

Christian Standard Bible®
Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered. Wail for her; get balm for her wound— perhaps she can be healed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Babiloyne felle doun sudenli, and is al to-brokun; yelle ye on it, take ye recyn to the sorewe therof, if perauenture it be heelid.

Young's Literal Translation
Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea; ² And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side. ³ Against her the bow of the archer is bent, and he puts on his coat of metal: have no mercy on her young men, give all her army up to the curse. ⁴ And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets. ⁵ For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel. ⁶ Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward. ⁷ Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads. 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. ⁹ We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies. ¹⁰ The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.

Bible Verse Review
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suddenly: Jeremiah 51:41, Jeremiah 50:2, Isaiah 21:9, Isaiah 47:9, Revelation 14:8, Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:8

howl: Jeremiah 48:20, Jeremiah 48:31, Isaiah 13:6, Isaiah 13:7, Ezekiel 27:30-32, Ezekiel 30:2, Daniel 5:24, Daniel 5:31, Revelation 18:9-11, Revelation 18:17-19

take balm: Jeremiah 8:22, Jeremiah 30:12-15, Jeremiah 46:11, Nahum 3:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:7 - that Egypt Jeremiah 49:3 - Howl Jeremiah 50:3 - which Jeremiah 50:24 - and thou wast Lamentations 2:13 - who can Ezekiel 30:21 - it shall not Micah 7:10 - she that Habakkuk 2:8 - the violence Zechariah 9:5 - and be Mark 5:26 - had suffered Revelation 18:10 - for

Gill's Notes on the 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 once, and it was broken; or rather he dashed it in pieces, as a potter's vessel. The destruction of Babylon was brought about in a very short time, considering the strength of it; and was unexpected by the inhabitants of it, and by the nations round about; but, when it was come, it was irreparable: so the destruction of mystical Babylon will be in one hour, and it will be an utter and entire destruction,

Revelation 18:8;

howl for her; as the inhabitants of Babylon, and her friends and allies that loved her, did no doubt; and as the kings and merchants of the earth, and others, will howl for spiritual Babylon, Revelation 18:9;

take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed: or balsam; see

Jeremiah 46:11; which is said by way of derision and mockery, as Kimchi and Abarbinel observe; or in an ironical and sarcastic manner; suggesting, that, let what means soever be made use of, her wound was incurable, her ruin inevitable, and her case irrecoverable.

g תשבר "confracta est", Schmidt; "fracta est", Cocceius; "contrita est", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 inhabitants of Babylon who were dragged from their homes to people its void places, and especially the Israelites. They have dwelt there long enough to feel pity for her, when they contrast her past magnificence with her terrible fall. Compare Jeremiah 29:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.