Revelation 18:20

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

18They will see the smoke from the fire that burns the city. Then they will shout, ‘There is no other city like this great city!’ 19They will throw dirt from the ground on their heads because they are so sad. They will weep and they will shout, ‘Bad trouble has come to you, Babylon! Great city! It is very bad for you! Everyone who had ships on the sea became rich because of you. You used your money to buy their expensive things. But in one single hour God has destroyed that city.’ Yes, you who live in heaven, be happy! Be happy because God has punished Babylon! God's people and his apostles and his prophets, be happy! God has punished the city because of what she did to you. 21Then a powerful angel picked up a very big, heavy stone. He threw it into the sea. He said, ‘God will throw you down, Babylon! You are a great city, but God will throw you down like this stone. Nobody will ever see you again! 22Nobody will ever hear music in the city again. Nobody will sing there. Nobody will make music with harps, or with flutes, or with trumpets. There will never be workers who make things in the city. Nobody will ever hear the sound of people who make flour again.

Revelation 18:20 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Rejoiceεὐφραίνωeuphrainō · to celebrateG2165
• overἐπίepi · upon/to/againstG1909
• herαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• heavenοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• holyἅγιοςhagios · holy: saintG40
• apostlesἀπόστολοςapostolos · apostleG652
• prophetsπροφήτηςprophētēs · prophetG4396
• forὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• hathκρίνωkrinō · to judgeG2919
• avengedκρίμαkrima · judgmentG2917
• youσύsu · youG4771
• onἐκek ex · out fromG1537

Cross-references for Revelation 18:20

• Revelation 19:1After these things, I heard a sound like the voices of a great crowd of people in heaven. They were shouting, ‘Praise the Lord our God! He has saved us! He is very powerful! We say that he is great!
• Judges 5:31I pray that all your enemies will die as Sisera died, Lord! But I pray that those who love you will shine brightly. May they be strong like the sun at dawn.’ After that, there was peace in Israel for 40 years.
• Psalms 48:11Because you judge people in a right way, Mount Zion and all the towns of Judah will be happy.
• Psalms 58:10When God punishes those wicked people, righteous people will be very happy. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked people!
• Psalms 96:11The earth and the sky should be happy! The sea and everything in it should shout aloud!
• Psalms 107:42Good people see what God has done, and it makes them happy. Wicked people have nothing to say!
• Psalms 109:28They may curse me, but you will bless me. When they attack me, they will become ashamed. But I will be very happy, as your servant.
• Proverbs 11:10When righteous people do well, everyone in the city is happy. And people shout with joy when wicked people die.
• Isaiah 44:23Sing aloud with joy, you heavens above us, because the Lord has done it! Shout as loudly as you can, places deep below the earth. You mountains, sing with joy, and you forests and trees as well! Be happy, because the Lord has redeemed his people. He has rescued the Israelites, Jacob's descendants, to show how great he is.
• Isaiah 49:13Shout with joy, everything in the sky! Be happy, everything on the earth! Sing loudly, you mountains! Be happy, because the Lord comforts his people. He will be kind to his people who have trouble and pain.
• Jeremiah 51:47So the time will soon come when I will punish Babylon's idols. The whole country will become ashamed. Its people will die and their dead bodies will lie everywhere.
• Ephesians 2:20You are like a house that God is building for himself. God's apostles and his prophets are like the foundation under the house. Jesus Christ is like the most important stone in the house.
• Ephesians 3:5God did not tell this secret message to the people who lived before us. But now the Holy Spirit has shown it to God's apostles and prophets.
• Ephesians 4:11It was Christ who chose to give different gifts to his people. He chose some to be apostles. He chose some to speak messages from God. He chose some to tell God's good news to many people. He chose some to take care of his people, and to teach them.
• 2 Peter 3:2I want you to remember the messages from God that his own prophets spoke a long time ago. Also, I want you to remember what our Lord Jesus told you to do. He is the one who saves us. He sent us, his apostles, to teach you his message.
• Jude 1:17But as for you, my friends, remember the message that the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ have taught you. They spoke about what would happen in future times.

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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In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Fill
• Foul
• Mighty
• Thy
• Avenge; Avenger
• Babylon in the New Testament
• Bishop
• Damn; Damnation; Damnable

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