Isaiah 23:16-17

New International Version

¹⁶“Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;^(A)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”

¹⁷At the end of seventy years,^(B) the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution^(C) and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.^(D)

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Nahum 3:4

New International Version

⁴all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute,
alluring, the mistress of sorceries,^(A)
who enslaved nations by her prostitution^(B)
and peoples by her witchcraft.

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Nahum 3:4 in all English translations

Revelation 14:8

New International Version

⁸A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’^[a]^(A) which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”^(B)

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Footnotes

Revelation 14:8 Isaiah 21:9

Revelation 14:8 in all English translations

Revelation 18:3

New International Version

³For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.^(A)
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,^(B)
and the merchants of the earth grew rich^(C) from her excessive luxuries.”^(D)