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Revelation 18:20
20Rejoice over her, heaven, and [ye] saints and apostles and prophets; for 1God has judged your judgment upon her.
Revelation 18:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
- New International Version (NIV)“Rejoice over her, you heavens! Rejoice, you people of God! Rejoice, apostles and prophets! For God has judged her with the judgment she imposed on you.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you holy apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her!”
Context of Revelation 18:20
18and cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city] is like to the great city? 19and cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were enriched through her costliness! for in one hour she has been made desolate. Rejoice over her, heaven, and [ye] saints and apostles and prophets; for God has judged your judgment upon her. 21And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all; 22and voice of harp-singers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard any more at all in thee, and no artificer of any art shall be found any more at all in thee, and voice of millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee,
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εὐφραίνου ἐπ᾽ αὐτῇ, οὐρανὲ καὶ οἱ ἅγιοι καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι καὶ οἱ προφῆται, ὅτι ἔκρινεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ κρίμα ὑμῶν ἐξ αὐτῆς.¶Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Revelation 18:20
- Revelation 19:1After these things I heard as a loud voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, Hallelujah: the salvation and the glory and the power of our God:
- Judges 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, Jehovah! But let them that love him be as the rising of the sun in its might. And the land had rest forty years.
- Psalms 48:11Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
- Psalms 58:10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:
- Psalms 96:11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
- Psalms 107:42The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and all unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.
- Psalms 109:28Let them curse, but bless thou; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice.
- Proverbs 11:10When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
- Isaiah 44:23Sing, ye heavens; for Jehovah hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, the forest, and every tree therein! For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
- Isaiah 49:13Shout, ye heavens; and be joyful, thou earth; and break forth into singing, ye mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted ones.
- Jeremiah 51:47Therefore behold, days are coming when I will punish the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
- Ephesians 2:20being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner-stone,
- Ephesians 3:5which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in [the power of the] Spirit,
- Ephesians 4:11and he has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,
- 2 Peter 3:2to be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour by your apostles;
- Jude 1:17But ye, beloved, remember the words spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Commentaries on Revelation 18:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Rejoice over her, thou heaven - This is grand and sublime; the fall of this bad city was cause of grief to bad men. But as this city was a persecutor of the godly, and an enemy to the works of God, angels, apostles, and prophets are called to rejoice over her fall.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Rejoice over her - Over her ruin. There is a strong contrast between this language and what precedes. Kings, merchants, and seamen, who had been countenanced and sustained by her in the indulgence of corrupt passions, or who had been enriched by traffic with her, would have occasion to mourn. But not so they who had been persecuted by her. Not so the church of the redeemed. Not so heaven itself. The great oppressor of the church, and the corrupter of the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-24Verses 20-24 That which is matter of rejoicing to the servants of God on earth, is matter of rejoicing to the angels in heaven. The apostles, who are honoured and daily worshipped at Rome in an idolatrous manner, will rejoice in her fall. The fall of Babylon was an act of God's justice. And because it was a final ruin, this enemy should never molest them any more; of this they were assured by a sign. Let us take warning from the things which brought…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20The laments (Revelation 18:9–19) prompt a call for heaven to rejoice. The people of God should not grieve because the judgment was for them. They had suffered persecution from the evil forces symbolized by the great city.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. holy apostles--So C reads. But A, B, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, and Andreas read, "Ye saints and ye apostles." avenged you on her--Greek, "judged your judgment on (literally, exacting it from) her." "There is more joy in heaven at the harlot's downfall than at that of the two beasts. For the most heinous of all sin is the sin of those who know God's word of grace, and keep it not. The worldliness of the Church is the most worldly of all worldliness…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Revelation 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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