After these things, I saw another angel coming from the heavenly realm with great authority, and the earth was flooded with the brilliance of his splendor. He shouted out with a thunderous voice:
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
She has become a demonic dwelling place,
a prison for every unclean spirit, unclean bird,
and every unclean, detestable beast.
All the nations have drunk
of the wine of her immoral passion,
and the kings of the earth
have committed fornication with her,
and merchants of the earth have grown wealthy
because of her power and luxury.”
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying:
“My people, come out from her
so that you don’t participate in her sins
and have no share with her in her plagues,
because her sins are heaped as high as heaven
and God has remembered her vileness.
So repay to her double the same treatment
that she has treated others with—
pay her back double for all her deeds
and make her drink twice the brew she gave to others!
With the same measure she exalted herself
and lived luxuriously,
give her that measure of torment and grief,
because she said in her heart,
‘I am no widow; I rule as a queen!
I will never experience grief.’
Therefore, her plagues will fall on her in one day—
disease, famine and mourning.
She will be burned with fire.
For mighty is the Lord God who judges her!”
The kings of the earth who fornicated with her and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of the fire that burns her up. And they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, saying:
“Oh no! You who were once
the great and powerful city Babylon,
now in one hour your complete devastation has come!”
The earth’s merchants weep and mourn for her because no one buys their merchandise anymore: their gold, silver, jewels, and pearls, their fine linen, purple cloth, silk, and scarlet cloth, all kinds of things made from expensive wood, ivory, bronze, iron, and marble, quantities of the finest cinnamon, spice, incense, frankincense, and myrrh, wine, olive oil, wheat, and the finest flour, sheep, cattle, horses, and their four-wheeled carriages, and the trafficking of the bodies and souls of people.
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