Revelation 18:3-8
J.B. Phillips New Testament
The final overthrow of Babylon
18 1-3 Later I saw another angel coming down from Heaven, armed with great authority. The earth shone with the splendour of his presence, and he cried in a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a haunt of devils, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every foul and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk the wine of her passionate unfaithfulness and have fallen thereby. The kings of the earth have debauched themselves with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the extravagance of her dissipation!”
4-8 Then I heard another voice from Heaven, crying, “Come out from her, O my people, lest you become accomplices in her sins and must share in her punishment. For her sins have mounted up to the sky, and God has remembered the tale of her wickedness. Pay her back in her own coin—yes, pay her back double for all that she has done! In the cup which she mixed for others mix her a drink of double strength! For the pride in which she flaunted herself give her torture and misery! Because she says to herself, ‘Here I sit a queen on a throne; I am no woman who lacks a man and I shall never know sorrow!’ So in a single day her punishments shall strike her—death, sorrow and famine and she shall be burned in the fire. For mighty is the Lord God who judges her!”
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Revelation 18:3-5
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3 For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.(A)
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,(B)
and the merchants of the earth grew rich(C) from her excessive luxuries.”(D)
Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
Footnotes
- Revelation 18:4 Jer. 51:45
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