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Render[a] to her as indeed she herself rendered, and double[b] the doubles in accordance with her works. Mix double for her in the cup in which she mixed. To the degree she glorified herself and lived-luxuriously[c], to that degree give her torment and mourning. Because she says in her heart that ‘I sit as queen and I am not a widow, and I will never see mourning’, for this reason her plagues will come in one day— death[d] and mourning and famine— and she will be burned-up with fire, because the Lord God, the One having judged her, is strong[e].

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:6 This may be addressed to God’s agents for Babylon’s destruction (17:16-17); or, this may be a prayer to God by the voice in v 4.
  2. Revelation 18:6 That is, give back to her double for the things she doubled to others.
  3. Revelation 18:7 Or, lived-sensually.
  4. Revelation 18:8 Or, pestilence.
  5. Revelation 18:8 Or, mighty, powerful.

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