8  ^aSuddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;

^bwail for her!

^cTake balm for her pain;

perhaps she may be healed.

9  We would have healed Babylon,

but she was not healed.

^dForsake her, and ^elet us go

each to his own country,

for ^fher judgment has reached up to heaven

and has been lifted up even to the skies.