Revelation 18:8

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Summary

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

Shall her

Revelation 18:10

Isaiah 47:9

Jeremiah 51:6

And she

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Bible References

Shall her

Frightened by the torture that she experiences, they will stand far away and cry out, "How terrible, how terrible it is for that great city, the powerful city Babylon, because your judgment arrived in a single hour!"

Both of these things will overtake you suddenly on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite the multitude of your incantations and the great power of your spells."

Flee from Babylon, and each of you, escape with your life! Don't be destroyed because of her guilt, for it's time for the LORD's vengeance. He is paying back what is due to her.

And she

The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality with her and lived in luxury with her, will cry and mourn over her when they see the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.

The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."

A second time they said, "Hallelujah! The smoke goes up from her forever and ever."

This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "The broad wall of Babylon will be completely leveled, and its high gate set on fire. and so the nations toil for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire."

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They burned every town where they had lived and incinerated all of their encampments.

Even in laughter there may be heartache, and at the end of joy there may be grief.

Just as when God overthrew Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighbors," declares the LORD, "so also no one will live there. No human being will reside in it.

I am deeply angry with the nations who are complacent, with whom I was only a little displeased but they made things worse!"