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Jeremiah 51:8

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

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פִּתְאֹ֛םpitomstraightwayפִּתְאוֹםadverb — “straightway”H6597instantlystraightway, sudden(-ly).נָפְלָ֥הnafelahfallנָפַלverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “fall”, a completed actionH5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for H6419 (פָּלַל…בָבֶ֖לvavelBabelבָּבֶלnoun, proper name — “Babel”H894Babel (i.e. Babylon), including Babylonia and the Babylonian empireBabel, Babylon.וַתִּשָּׁבֵ֑רvatishaverand breakשָׁבַרconjunction, verb, niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “and break”, the next action in the storyH7665to burst (literally or figuratively)break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, [idiom] quite, tear, view (by mistake for H7663 (שָׂבַר)).הֵילִ֣ילוּheylilvhowlיָלַלverb, hiphil, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “howl”, a commandH3213to howl (with a wailing tone) or yell (with a boisterous one)(make to) howl, be howling.עָלֶ֗יהָaleyhaaboveעַלpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…קְח֤וּqechvtakeלָקַחverb, qal, imperative, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “take”, a commandH3947to take (in the widest variety of applications)accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, [idiom] many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.צֳרִי֙tsoribalmצְרִיnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “balm”, the ordinary formH6875distillation, i.e. balsambalm.לְמַכְאוֹבָ֔הּlemakhovahto griefמַכְאֹבpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “to grief”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4341anguish or (figuratively) afflictiongrief, pain, sorrow.אוּלַ֖יulayif so beאוּלַיadverb — “if so be”H194if not; hence perhapsif so be, may be, peradventure, unless.תֵּרָפֵֽאterafecureרָפָאverb, niphal, imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular — “cure”, an unfinished actionH7495properly, to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to curecure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, [idiom] thoroughly, make whole. See H7503 (רָפָה).

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed, wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Young’s 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.

World English Bible

Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed! Wail for her! Take balm for her pain. Perhaps she may be healed.

Darby Translation

Babylon is suddenly fallen and ruined. Howl over her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Douay-Rheims

Babylon is suddenly fallen, and destroyed: howl for her, take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed, wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

παραπικράναι με ἐν τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν, θυμιᾷν θεοῖς ἑτέροις ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ, εἰς ἣν ἤλθετε κατοικεῖν ἐκεῖ, ἵνα κοπῆτε, καὶ ἵνα γένησθε εἰς κατάραν καὶ εἰς ὀνειδισμὸν ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσι τῆς γῆς;