New American Standard Bible 2020

Revelation 18:7-9

7 1To the extent that she glorified herself and 2lived luxuriously, to the same extent give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘3I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’ 8For this reason 4in one day her plagues will come, 5plague and mourning and famine, and she will be 6burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her 7is strong.

9“And 8the kings of the earth, who committed acts of sexual immorality and 9lived luxuriously with her, will 10weep and mourn over her when they 11see the smoke of her burning,

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Notes

1. Revelation 18:7 Ezek 28:2-8 ↩
2. Revelation 18:7 1 Tim 5:11; Rev 18:3, 9 ↩
3. Revelation 18:7 Is 47:7f; Zeph 2:15 ↩
4. Revelation 18:8 Is 47:9; Jer 50:31f; Rev 18:10 ↩
5. Revelation 18:8 Lit death; i.e., a particular kind of death ↩
6. Revelation 18:8 Rev 17:16 ↩
7. Revelation 18:8 Jer 50:34; Rev 11:17f ↩
8. Revelation 18:9 Rev 17:2; 18:3 ↩
9. Revelation 18:9 1 Tim 5:11; Rev 18:3, 7 ↩
10. Revelation 18:9 Ezek 26:16f; 27:35 ↩
11. Revelation 18:9 Rev 14:11; 18:18; 19:3 ↩

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