Revelation 18:2

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Summary

And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

Cried

Become

General references

Leviticus 11:16

Jeremiah 50:39

Bible References

Cried

His feet were like fine brass glowing in a furnace. His voice sounded like many rushing waters.

And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming with a loud voice: Who is worthy to open the book, and to remove the seals?

And he cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

Another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud: Thrust in your sickle, and reap! The time has come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

That is why you will prophecy all these things to them and say: Jehovah roars from above. He thunders from his holy dwelling place. He roars against his land. He shouts like those who stomp grapes. He shouts against all those who live on earth.

Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem. The heavens and the earth will shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

Become

Here are the kinds of birds you must consider disgusting and must not eat. They are eagles, bearded vultures, black vultures,

It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there.

I will turn Babylon into a marsh. Porcupines will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away. I, the Sovereign Lord Jehovah have spoken.

The watchman called out from the tower: Sir, I stand on the watchtower every day. Every night, I stand guard at my post.

Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. Porcupines and crows will live there. He will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of destruction over it.

That is why desert animals will live with hyenas. Desert owls will also live there. It will no longer be inhabited or lived in for generations.

Babylon will become a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals, an object of horror and hissing, without inhabitants.

He was living in the tombs. No man was able to bind him even with a chain.

When he arrived on the shore, a demon-possessed man met him. He wore no clothes and did not live in a house but in the tombs. He had been this way a long time.

General references

ostriches, nighthawks, seagulls, all types of falcons,

That is why desert animals will live with hyenas. Desert owls will also live there. It will no longer be inhabited or lived in for generations.