Jeremiah 51:9

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We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country: for her judgment reaches unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

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Cyril of Alexandria

AD 444

Jerusalem here is called Babylon, noted among the surrounding countries as the one who worked the hardest at imitating Babylon, and in no way lagging behind these other countries. Indeed, having arrived at almost a state of perfection in this regard, it tolerated no respect for the law or benefit from prophetic instruction. - "Fragments on Jeremiah in Catena"

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

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.

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