Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

Bible References

When

Revelation 18:9
The kings of the earth who have committed sexual immorality and lived luxuriously with her will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning.

What

Revelation 18:10
They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:

Woe, woe, the great city,
Babylon, the mighty city!
For in a single hour
your judgment has come.
Revelation 13:4
They worshiped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against him?”
Isaiah 23:8
Who planned this against Tyre,
the bestower of crowns,
whose traders are princes,
whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?
Jeremiah 51:37
Babylon will become a heap of rubble,
a jackals’ den,
a desolation and an object of scorn,
without inhabitant.
Ezekiel 27:30
They raise their voices over you
and cry out bitterly.
They throw dust on their heads;
they roll in ashes.

General references

Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw that smoke was going up from the land like the smoke of a furnace.
Exodus 11:6
Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before, or ever will be again.
Jeremiah 49:25
How can the city of praise not be abandoned,
the town that brings Me joy?
Jeremiah 51:54
The sound of a cry from Babylon!
The sound of great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans!

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.