Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
New American Standard Bible
Perhaps 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.
Holman Bible
Wail for her;
get balm
perhaps she can be healed.
International Standard Version
Suddenly, Babylon fell down and was shattered. Wail for her! Bring balm for her wound, perhaps she will be healed.
A Conservative Version
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Wail for her. Take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Amplified
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.
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.
Darby Translation
Babylon is suddenly fallen and ruined. Howl over her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Julia Smith Translation
Babylon fell suddenly, and she will be broken: wail ye for her; take balsam for her pain, perhaps she will be healed.
King James 2000
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and she is shattered. Wail over her! Take balm for her wounds, perhaps she may be healed.
Modern King James verseion
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Wail for her; take balm for her pain, if perhaps she may be healed.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But suddenly is Babylon fallen and destroyed. Mourn for her; bring plasters for her wounds, if she may peradventure be healed again.
NET Bible
But suddenly Babylonia will fall and be destroyed. Cry out in mourning over it! Get medicine for her wounds! Perhaps she can be healed!
New Heart English Bible
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
The Emphasized Bible
Suddenly, hath Babylon fallen and been broken, - Howl ye over her Fetch balsam for her pain, Peradventure she shall be healed!
Webster
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, it may be 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.
Youngs 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.
Interlinear
Naphal
Laqach
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 51:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Babylon
7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad. 8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. 9 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.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 21:9
and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.
Jeremiah 46:11
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.
Revelation 14:8
And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Jeremiah 48:20
Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.
Revelation 18:2
And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.
Isaiah 13:6-7
Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Isaiah 47:9
but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 30:12-15
For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous.
Jeremiah 48:31
Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn.
Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Ezekiel 27:30-32
and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
Ezekiel 30:2
Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Wail ye, Alas for the day!
Daniel 5:24
Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
Daniel 5:31
And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Nahum 3:19
There is no assuaging of thy hurt: thy wound is grievous: all that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
Revelation 18:8-11
Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged her.
Revelation 18:17-19
for in an hour so great riches is made desolate. And every shipmaster, and every one that saileth any wither, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood afar off,