Revelation 18
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Revelation 18:2-8

2And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “12Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She 3has become a dwelling place of demons and a 4prison of every 5unclean spirit, and a 6prison of every unclean and hateful bird. 3For all the nations have fallen because of the 7wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and 8the kings of the earth have committed acts of sexual immorality with her, and the 9merchants of the earth have become rich from the 10excessive wealth of her 1112luxury.”

4I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “13Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive any of her plagues; 5for her sins have 1415piled up as high as heaven, and God has 16remembered her offenses. 617Pay her back even as she has paid, and 18give back to her double according to her deeds; in the 19cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. 720To the extent that she glorified herself and 21lived luxuriously, to the same extent give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘22I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’ 8For this reason 23in one day her plagues will come, 24plague and mourning and famine, and she will be 25burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her 26is strong.

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Notes

  1. 1. Revelation 18:2 Lit Babylon...fell, fell ↩
  2. 2. Revelation 18:2 Is 21:9; Jer 51:8; Rev 14:8 ↩
  3. 3. Revelation 18:2 Is 13:21f; 34:11, 13-15; Jer 50:39; 51:37; Zeph 2:14f ↩
  4. 4. Revelation 18:2 Or haunt ↩
  5. 5. Revelation 18:2 Rev 16:13 ↩
  6. 6. Revelation 18:2 Or haunt ↩
  7. 7. Revelation 18:3 Jer 51:7; Rev 14:8 ↩
  8. 8. Revelation 18:3 Rev 17:2; 18:9 ↩
  9. 9. Revelation 18:3 Ezek 27:9-25; Rev 18:11, 15, 19, 23 ↩
  10. 10. Revelation 18:3 Lit power ↩
  11. 11. Revelation 18:3 Or sensuality ↩
  12. 12. Revelation 18:3 1 Tim 5:11; Rev 18:7, 9 ↩
  13. 13. Revelation 18:4 Is 52:11; Jer 50:8; 51:6, 9, 45; 2 Cor 6:17 ↩
  14. 14. Revelation 18:5 Lit joined together ↩
  15. 15. Revelation 18:5 Jer 51:9 ↩
  16. 16. Revelation 18:5 Rev 16:19 ↩
  17. 17. Revelation 18:6 Ps 137:8; Jer 50:15, 29 ↩
  18. 18. Revelation 18:6 Lit double to her ↩
  19. 19. Revelation 18:6 Rev 17:4 ↩
  20. 20. Revelation 18:7 Ezek 28:2-8 ↩
  21. 21. Revelation 18:7 1 Tim 5:11; Rev 18:3, 9 ↩
  22. 22. Revelation 18:7 Is 47:7f; Zeph 2:15 ↩
  23. 23. Revelation 18:8 Is 47:9; Jer 50:31f; Rev 18:10 ↩
  24. 24. Revelation 18:8 Lit death; i.e., a particular kind of death ↩
  25. 25. Revelation 18:8 Rev 17:16 ↩
  26. 26. Revelation 18:8 Jer 50:34; Rev 11:17f ↩

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