King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 51:8
“Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 51
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this [is] the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Babylon [hath been] a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up [even] to the skies.
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
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