As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways,
give her that much torment and grief.
For she says in her heart,
“I sit as a queen;
I am not a widow,
and I will never see grief.”(A)
For this reason her plagues will come in just one day—
death and grief and famine.(B)
She will be burned up with fire,(C)
because the Lord God who judges(D) her is mighty.(E)

The World Mourns Babylon’s Fall

The kings of the earth who have committed sexual immorality and shared her sensual and excessive ways will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke from her burning.

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