Focused Passage

Jeremiah 51:9-10

Babylon Sunk: The LORD’s Vengeance, Israel’s Deliverance, and the Stone Cast into the Euphrates

The chapter moves from the LORD stirring up destroyers against Babylon, to the command for Israel to flee, to Babylon’s image as a shattered golden cup, to the LORD’s vengeance for Zion, to a creation-theology contrast between the LORD and idols, to Babylon as the LORD’s war club now judged, to repeated announcements of Babylon’s desolation, to pastoral exhortations for exiles not to lose heart, and finally to Seraiah’s symbolic sinking of the scroll in the Euphrates.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

9 “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

10 “The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”

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Verse 9

Cross-references

2 Chronicles 7:14 Classic cross-references Revelation 18:5 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:16 Classic cross-references Isaiah 13:14 Classic cross-references Isaiah 12:4 Classic cross-references

Original words

We tried to heal רִפִּאנוּ H7495 Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common plural - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker Babylon בָּבֶל֙ H894 Noun - proper - feminine singular but she could not וְלֹ֣א H3808 Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle be healed נִרְפָּ֔תָה H7495 Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Abandon her עִזְב֕וּהָ H5800 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural | third person feminine singular Let each אִ֣ישׁ H376 Noun - masculine singular of us go וְנֵלֵ֖ךְ H1980 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common plural to his own land לְאַרְצ֑וֹ H776 Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular for כִּֽי־ H3588 Conjunction her judgment מִשְׁפָּטָ֔הּ H4941 Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular extends נָגַ֤ע H5060 Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular to אֶל־ H413 Preposition the sky הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ H8064 Article | Noun - masculine plural and reaches וְנִשָּׂ֖א H5375 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular to עַד־ H5704 Preposition the clouds שְׁחָקִֽים׃ H7834 Noun - masculine plural

Verse 10

Cross-references

Zechariah 9:12 Classic cross-references Psalms 118:17 Classic cross-references Psalms 64:9 Classic cross-references Jeremiah 50:28 Classic cross-references Isaiah 30:19 Classic cross-references

Original words

The LORD יְהוָ֖ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular has brought forth הוֹצִ֥יא H3318 Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular - אֶת־ H853 Direct object marker our vindication צִדְקֹתֵ֑ינוּ H6666 Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common plural come בֹּ֚אוּ H935 Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural let us tell וּנְסַפְּרָ֣ה H5608 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common plural in Zion בְצִיּ֔וֹן H6726 Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular what the LORD יְהוָ֥ה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular - אֶֽת־ H853 Direct object marker our God אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ H430 Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural has accomplished מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה H4639 Noun - masculine singular construct

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