diff --git a/lib/parse.js b/lib/parse.js
index 0c22bb2d..04ec692d 100644
--- a/lib/parse.js
+++ b/lib/parse.js
@@ -1418,10 +1418,8 @@ function parse($TEXT, options) {
                 tokenizer_S.next();
                 next();
                 segments.push(expression());
-                expect("}");
-                if (is("punc", "`")) {
-                    break;
-                }
+                if (!is("punc", "}"))
+                    token_error(tokenizer_S.token, "Unexpected token " + tokenizer_S.token.type + " «" + tokenizer_S.token.value + "»" + ", expected punc «}»");
                 continue;
             }
             segment += ch;