Thematic Bible




Revelation 18:1 (show verse)

After that I saw another angel descend from heaven, great in might; his radiance lit up the earth,

Revelation 18:2 (show verse)

and he shouted aloud with a strong voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, now she is a haunt of demons, the den of all foul spirits, a cage for every foul and loathsome bird:

Revelation 18:3 (show verse)

for all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her vice, the kings of the earth have committed vice with her, and by the wealth of her wantonness earth's traders have grown rich."

Revelation 18:4 (show verse)

And I heard another voice from heaven crying, "Come out of her, O my people, that you share not her sins, that you partake not of her plagues:

Revelation 18:5 (show verse)

for high as heaven her sins are heaped, and God calls her misdeeds to the reckoning.

Revelation 18:6 (show verse)

Render to her what she rendered to others, aye, double the doom for all she has done; mix her the draught double in the cup she mixed for others.

Revelation 18:7 (show verse)

As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'

Revelation 18:8 (show verse)

so shall her plagues fall in a single day, pestilence, tears, and famine: she shall be burnt with fire ??for strong is God the Lord her judge.

Revelation 18:9 (show verse)

And the kings at the earth who committed vice and wantoned with her shall weep and wail over her, as they watch the smoke of her burning;

Revelation 18:10 (show verse)

for fear of her torture they will stand far off, crying, 'Woe and alas, thou great city! thou strong city of Babylon! In one brief hour thy doom has come.'

Revelation 18:11 (show verse)

And the traders of earth shall weep and wail over her; for now there is none to buy their freights,

Revelation 18:12 (show verse)

freights of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purples, silk, scarlet stuff, all sorts of citron wood and ivory wares, all articles of costly wood, of bronze, of iron and of marble,

Revelation 18:13 (show verse)

with cinnamon, balsam, spices, myrrh, frankincense, wines, olive-oil, fine flour and wheat, with cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and the souls of men.

Revelation 18:14 (show verse)

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Revelation 18:15 (show verse)

The traders in these wares, who made rich profits from her, will stand far off for fear of her torture, weeping and wailing:

Revelation 18:16 (show verse)

'Woe and alas, for the great city, robed in linen, in purple and scarlet, her ornaments of gold, of jewels and pearl!

Revelation 18:17 (show verse)

And all this splendour gone in one brief hour!' And all shipmasters and sea-faring folk, sailors and all whose business lies upon the sea, stood far off

Revelation 18:18 (show verse)

as they watched the smoke of her burning, crying, 'What city was like the great City?'

Revelation 18:19 (show verse)

They threw dust on their heads and cried, as they wept and wailed, 'Woe and alas for the great City, where all shipmen made rich profit by her treasures! Gone, gone in one brief hour!'

Revelation 18:20 (show verse)

O heaven, rejoice over her! Saints, apostles, prophets, rejoice! For God has avenged you on her now."

Revelation 18:21 (show verse)

Then a strong angel lifted a boulder like a huge millstone and flung it into the sea, crying, "So shall the great city, Babylon, be hurled down, hurtling, and never be seen any more:

Revelation 18:22 (show verse)

& 23] Vanished the ripe fruit of thy soul's desire! Perished thy luxury and splendour! Never again to be seen.

Revelation 18:23 (show verse)

For the magnates of earth were thy traders; all nations were seduced by thy magic spells.

Revelation 18:24 (show verse)

And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, of all who were slain upon earth."