Revelation 14:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸A second angel followed him, saying:

“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great.
She has made all the nations drink
the wine of the wrath of her immorality.”

⁹A third angel followed them, crying out in a loud voice, “Anyone who worships the beast or its image and receives its mark on his forehead or hand ¹⁰will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured undiluted into the cup of his wrath.^[a] Such people will be tormented in burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

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Footnotes

Revelation 14:10 Cup of his wrath: the Old Testament commonly portrays the wrath of God by a cup of wine to be drunk (see Ps 75:9; Isa 51:17; Jer 25:15). Burning sulfur: this figured prominently in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (see Gen 19:24), and Ps 11:6 speaks of a similar fate awaiting the wicked. The figure is also found elsewhere in the Old Testament and in the final chapters of Rev (19:20; 20:10; 21:8).

Revelation 14:8-10

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)

⁹A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast^(C) and its image^(D) and receives its mark on their forehead^(E) or on their hand, ¹⁰they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury,^(F) which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.^(G) They will be tormented with burning sulfur^(H) in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.