Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Take balm
Bible References
Suddenly
Jeremiah 51:41
"How Sheshak will be captured, and the prince of all the earth seized! How Babylon will become an object of horror among the nations!
Jeremiah 50:2
"Declare and proclaim among the nations. Lift up a banner and proclaim. Don't conceal anything. Say, "Babylon will be captured. Bel will be disgraced, and Marduk will be destroyed. Her idols will be disgraced, and her filthy images will be destroyed.'
Isaiah 21:9
Look! Here come riders, each man with a pair of horses!" They're shouting out the answer: "Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and they have shattered all the images of her gods on the ground!
Isaiah 47:9
Both of these things will overtake you suddenly on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite the multitude of your incantations and the great power of your spells."
Revelation 14:8
Then another angel, a second one, followed him, saying, "Fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen! She has made all nations drink the wine, the wrath earned for her sexual sins."
Revelation 18:2
He cried out in a powerful voice, "Fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons. She is a prison for every unclean spirit, a prison for every unclean bird, and a prison for every unclean and hated beast.
Take balm
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why is there no healing for my people?
Jeremiah 30:12
"For this is what the LORD says: "Your injury won't heal; your wound is severe.
Jeremiah 46:11
Go up to Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you multiply remedies, but there is no healing for you.
Nahum 3:19
There is no healing for your injury your wound is fatal. Everyone who hears about you will applaud, because who hasn't escaped your endless evil?"