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For all the nations have drunk[a]
    the wine of her licentious passion.
The kings of the earth had intercourse with her,
    and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury.”(A)

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“Depart from her,[b] my people,
    so as not to take part in her sins
    and receive a share in her plagues,(B)
for her sins are piled up to the sky,
    and God remembers her crimes.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:3–24 Rome is condemned for her immorality, symbol of idolatry (see note on Rev 14:4), and for persecuting the church; cf. Rev 19:2.
  2. 18:4 Depart from her: not evacuation of the city but separation from sinners, as always in apocalyptic literature.