Revelation 181
After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth became illumined by his splendor.2* He cried out in a mighty voice:
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great.
She has become a haunt for demons.
She is a cage for every unclean spirit,
a cage for every unclean bird,
[a cage for every unclean] and disgusting [beast].
3For all the nations have drunk*
the wine of her licentious passion.
The kings of the earth had intercourse with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury.”c
“Depart from her,* my people,
so as not to take part in her sins
and receive a share in her plagues,
5for her sins are piled up to the sky,
and God remembers her crimes.
6Pay her back as she has paid others.
Pay her back double for her deeds.
Into her cup pour double what she poured.
7To the measure of her boasting and wantonness
repay her in torment and grief;
for she said to herself,
‘I sit enthroned as queen;
I am no widow,
and I will never know grief.’
8Therefore, her plagues will come in one day,
pestilence, grief, and famine;
she will be consumed by fire.
For mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
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