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

standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'

but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.

And she

The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."

A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever."

Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

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All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity."