Revelation 18:15

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Summary

The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

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Bible References

Which

For 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."

The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

But when her owners saw their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought a great deal of business to the craftsmen.

Shall

Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer --

When they called out to the Danites, the Danites turned around and said to Micah, "Why have you gathered together?"

they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.

Because of Israel's sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: "In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.