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Revelation 18

¹After these things I saw another angel descending from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was lighted up with his glory. ²And he cried out with a loud voice, saying,
"Babylon the Great has fallen, has fallen
And has become the habitation of demons
And a prison for every unclean spirit
And a prison for every unclean bird,
And a prison for every unclean and hateful beast.
³Because all the nations drank,
Some of the wine of the wrath of her fornication
And the kings of the earth committed fornication with her
And the merchants of the earth made themselves rich from the strength of their luxury."
⁴And I heard another voice out of heaven saying,
"Come out of her, my people
So that you don't become partakers of her sins
And of her plagues
That you may not receive.
⁵Because her sins have been stacked up to heaven
And God remembered her unrighteous deeds.
⁶Pay her back in the way she paid others,
And return double to her for her deeds,
In the cup in which she mixed (a drink), measure back to her double.
⁷As she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,
Give her torment and weeping in the same way,
Because she said in her heart,
'I sit as a queen
And I am no widow,
And I will never see weeping.
⁸For this reason her plagues will come in one day,
Death and weeping and famine
and she will be burned in fire,
Because the Lord our God who judges her is strong.

⁹And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication with her and lived luxuriously with her, will cry and beat their breasts in mourning over her, when they see the smoke of her fiery burning. ¹⁰They will stand far awy because of the fear of her torment, saying,
Woe! Woe, Oh great city!
Babylon the strong city
Because in one hour her judgment came.

¹¹And the merchants of the earch cry and weep over her, because nobody buys their cargo any more-- ¹²cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, every citron tree, every ivory vessel, every vessel made of valuable wood, bronze, iron and marble, ¹³cinnamon, amomum, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine wheat flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, and the bodies and souls of people.

¹⁴And the fruit that was your inmost desire
Has left you.
And everything radiant and bright
Has been sold away from you
and they will never be found again.

¹⁵The merchants of these things, who have enriched themselves from her will stand far awy because they are afraid of her torment, crying and weeping, ¹⁶saying,
Woe! Woe! Oh Great city!
Who was clothed in fine linen
and purple and scarlet
and decked out in gold
and precious stones and pearls.

¹⁷Because in one hour her riches were laid waste.
And every shipmaster, and those who were in centers of shipping and sailors, and all those whose work is related to the sea stand far away. ¹⁸And they cry out when they see the smoke of her fiery burning, saying, "Who is like the great city?" ¹⁹And they throw dust on their heads, and they cry out, weeping and mourning, saying,
Woe! Woe! Oh great city!
In which all those who have ships became rich
in the sea from her precious things
because in one hour she was laid waste.
²⁰Rejoice over her heaven
And the saints and apostles and prophets,
Because God has executed his sentence on her.

²¹And one strong angle lifted up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,
Thus violently is thrown,
Babylon the great city
And she will never again be found.
²²And the sound of harpists and musicians
And flautists and trumpeters
will never again be heard in you.
And every craftsman of every craft
Will no longer be found in you,
And the sound of the mill
Will never again be heard in you.
²³And the light of a lamp
Will no more shine in you any more,
And the voice of the bridegroom and the bride,
Will no longer be heard in you.
Because your merchants were the great ones of the earth,
Because by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
²⁴And the blood of prophets and saints was found in her
And all those who were slain on the earth.

Average revision: 3 (Draft # 1 by individual translator)