Add parallel Print Page Options

17 because so much wealth was desolated in one hour!’

All Who Work The Sea Weep

“And every helmsman[a] and everyone sailing to a place and sailors and all-who work the sea stood at a distance, 18 and were crying-out while seeing the smoke of her burning, saying ‘What city is like the great city?’ 19 And they threw dirt on their heads and were crying-out, weeping and mourning, saying ‘Woe, woe, the great city by which all the ones having ships at sea became-rich because-of her preciousness[b]— because she was desolated in one hour!’

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:17 That is, pilot of a ship.
  2. Revelation 18:19 Or, costliness. That is, because of the costly nature of Babylon’s things.

Bible Gateway Recommends