Revelation 18:5

Revelation 18:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
• New International Version (NIV)for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
• English Standard Version (ESV)for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Context of Revelation 18:5

3For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.” 4Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues, because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes. 6Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her. 7As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’

Revelation 18:5 word by word

ὅτι ἐκολλήθησαν αὐτῆς αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἄχρι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἐμνημόνευσεν ὁ θεὸς τὰ ἀδικήματα αὐτῆς.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Forὅτιhoti · that/since: sinceG3754
• herαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• sinsὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• sinsἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266
• have reachedἀκολουθέωakoloutheō · to followG190
• untoἄχριachri achris · untilG891
• heavenοὐρανόςouranos · heavenG3772
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• Godθεόςtheos · GodG2316
• hath rememberedμνημονεύωmnēmoneuō · to rememberG3421
• iniquitiesἀδίκημαadikēma · crimeG92

Cross-references for Revelation 18:5

• Genesis 18:20So the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
• 2 Chronicles 28:9Oded, a prophet of the Lord, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: “Look, because the Lord God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice.
• Ezra 9:6I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.
• Jeremiah 51:9Foreigners living there will say, ‘We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed. Let’s leave Babylonia and each go back to his own country. For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions. It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.’
• Jonah 1:2“Go immediately to Nineveh, that large capital city, and announce judgment against its people because their wickedness has come to my attention.”
• Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God’s furious wrath.

Commentaries on Revelation 18:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Her sins have reached unto heaven - They are become so great and enormous that the long-suffering of God must give place to his justice.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5For her sins have reached unto heaven - So in Jeremiah 51:9, speaking of Babylon, it is said, “For her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.” The meaning is not that the sins of this mystical Babylon were like a mass or pile so high as to reach to heaven, but that it had become so prominent as to attract the attention of God. Compare Genesis 4:10, “The voice of thy brother‘s blood crieth unto me from the ground.” See also…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5God has remembered: His response may seem slow (Psalm 103:8; 145:8; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:2), but God is not weak. He does not forget good or evil (Revelation 16:19; Genesis 19:29; 1 Samuel 1:19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. her sins--as a great heap. reached--Greek, "reached so far as to come into close contact with, and to cleave unto."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