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 burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?"

He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.

Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!"

Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread [the grapes], against all the inhabitants of the earth.

Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

Become

"'These you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the vulture, and the black vulture,

It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.

"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies.

He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs.

General references

the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,