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Jeremiah 51:9

We would have healed, etc.] As the v. cannot be taken to express Jewish sentiment, we must suppose it to be put in the mouth of the nations, intoxicated by their share in the splendour of Babylon, and so lamenting its fall and desiring to restore its fortunes. Cp. Revelation 18:9-19, and for Israel's joy (Jeremiah 51:10) at the judgement which befalls its oppressor, Revelation 18:20.

her judgement i.e. her punishment.

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See also Jeremiah 51:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 51:9. _WE WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON_] Had it been in our power, we would have saved her; but we could not turn away the judgment of God....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Omit would. All was done that it was possible to do to heal her. TO THE SKIES - Or, to the clouds....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon, her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the statement “thus far are the words of Jere...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:58. BABYLON. This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah an...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WE. Note this remarkable pronoun. EVERY ONE. Hebrew. _'Ish_. App-14. IS LIFTED UP. mounteth....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. An Exhortation to Israel Jeremiah 51:6-10 TRANSLATION (6) Flee from the midst of Babylon! Let everyone save his life! Perish not because of her guilt! For it is the time of the vengeance of the LO...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. HOWL FOR HER: TAKE BALM FOR HER PAIN ... WE WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON, BUT SHE IS NOT HE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WE WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON... — This is the dramatic answer of the Israelite exiles to the prophet’s appeal. They have done what they could, but all was in vain. The guilt could not be washed away,...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _רִפִּ֣ינוּ_† אֶת ־בָּבֶל֙ וְ לֹ֣א נִרְפָּ֔תָה עִזְב֕וּהָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:1 "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."- Jeremiah 50:2 THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to those of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let (f) us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth to heaven, and is lifted [even] to the skies. (f) Thus th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _We. The guardian angels, or Jews reply. Miracles are lost on her. --- Heavens. Her crimes call for punishment, Genesis xviii. 21., and Jonas i. 2._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Again I beg the Reader to remark, how the Lord points to his discriminating grace. The portion of Jacob is not like others. This people, saith Jehovah, I have formed for myself, they shall show forth...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet assumes different characters; he speaks here in the person of those who of themselves brought help to the Babylonians. And many, no doubt, would have been ready to assist them, had King Be...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WE WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON, BUT SHE IS NOT HEALED,.... These are either the words of the friends of Babylon of her auxiliaries and allies, who did all they could to defend her against the Persians,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 9. _W...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Babylon is suddenly fallen_ It was one of the aggravations of the punishment of Babylon, that her destruction came upon her suddenly and unexpectedly. _Howl for her_, &c. So the kings, the merchants,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed, it is impossible to mend her hurt. FORSAKE HER, so they now admonish one another, AND LET US GO EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN COUNTRY; FOR HER JUDGMENT RE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secur...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The prophet here seemeth to personate the mercenary soldiers that should come to help the Chaldeans, as if they should say this, they would have helped Babylon, but there was no healing for her; and t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:9 healed H7495 (H8765) Babylon H894 healed H7495 (H8738) Forsake H5800 (H8798) go H3212 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S VENGEANCE ON BABYLON AND THE VINDICATION OF ISRAEL/JUDAH (JEREMIAH 51:1). The proclamation of the certainty of YHWH's coming judgment on Babylon, and on all that it stands for, continues. While...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon, continued. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah. CONCLUSION: Let no nation think it will exempt them from God's judgment that they have been execu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 51:7. _Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah._ All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, applaud...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:9 WE. Perhaps Babylon’s allies. WOULD HAVE HEALED BABYLON. Would have come to her aid, but such attempts would be pointless because her sins have reached up to heaven

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For _Chronological Notes,_ see foregoing chapter. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 51:27. “_The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas_.” These nations of Western As...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 51:1 AGAINST THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. The Hebrew has _lēb-kāmai_, which is _Kasdim_, or _Chaldea, _written in the cypher called Athbash (see...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 28:9; Daniel 4:20; Ezra 9:6; Isaiah 13:14; Isaiah 47:15

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    We — The prophet seems to personate the mercenary soldiers, saying, they would have helped Babylon, but there was no healing for her....

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