Jeremiah 51:9

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Summary

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.

Forsake

Her judgment

Bible References

Forsake

The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.

... are stopped in their going, they are falling; and they say one to another, Let us get up and go back to our people, to the land of our birth, away from the cruel sword.

Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.

And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut.

Her judgment

But a prophet of the Lord was there, named Oded; and he went out in front of the army which was coming into Samaria and said to them, Truly, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them up into your hands, and you have put them to death in an outburst of wrath stretching up to heaven.

I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.

The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth;

For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.