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          DASV: Revelation 18    

1 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of
heaven, having great authority; and the earth was brightened
by his glory.
2 He shouted out with a mighty voice:
     "Fallen, Babylon the great is fallen,
           and is become a dwelling place for demons,
           and a haunt for every unclean spirit
           and every unclean and disgusting beast.
3 All the nations have fallen
      because of the wine of the passion of her immorality.
The kings of the earth have had sex with her,
     and the merchants of the earth have grown rich
           from her extravagant luxury."
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
     "Come out of her, my people,
           so that you have no share in her sins,
           and so that you do not receive her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached as high as heaven,
           and God has remembered her crimes.
6 Pay her back just as she has repaid others.
           Repay her double for her deeds.
In the cup she mixed for others,
           mix double for her.
7 However much she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
           give that much torment and grief to her.
Since she tells herself, 'I rule as a queen.
           I am no widow.
                I will never have to grieve.'
8 Therefore in just one day plagues will overcome her--
           death, mourning, and famine.
     She will be totally burned down;
           for the Lord God who judges her is mighty."
9 Then the kings of the earth, who committed sexual
immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and
wail over her when they look on the smoke of her
being burnt up.
10 They will stand at a distance because they are
afraid of her torment, saying,
     "Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city!
           For in just one hour your judgment has come."
11 Then the merchants of the earth will weep and
mourn over her, for no one will buy their merchandise
anymore--
12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls,
fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet; all types of citron
wood, all kinds of ivory objects, and all kinds of
objects made of expensive wood, bronze, iron, marble;
13 and cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense,
wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses
and chariots and slaves, that is, human beings.
14 The fruits you desired are gone from you, and all
luxury and splendor are lost from you, never ever to
be found.
15 The merchants selling these things, who got rich from
her, will stand at a distance for the fear of her
torment. They will weep and mourn,
16 saying,
     "Woe, woe, the great city,
           the one dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet clothes,
           and decked out with gold, precious stones and pearls!
17 For in just an hour so much wealth was destroyed."
Every ship captain, and all sailors and as many as
earn their living from sea, stood at a distance,
18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her
burning, "What city is like the great city?"
19 Then they threw dust on their heads, and crying
out, weeping and mourning, saying,
"Woe, woe, the great city,
in which all who had their ships in the sea
had become rich from her wealth!
For in just one hour she has been laid waste.
20 Rejoice over her, O heaven,
and you saints, apostles, and prophets;
for God has rendered judgment on her on your behalf."
21 Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a
large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,
"This is how Babylon, the great city will
violently be thrown down,
and will never be found again.
22 The sound of harpists, musicians, flute players
and trumpeters
will never again be heard in you.
No craftsman, of any kind of trade, will ever be
found in you.
The sound of the mill will never again be
heard in you.
23 The light of a lamp will never again shine
in you.
The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride
will never again be heard in you.
For your merchants were the greatest on the earth;
and all the nations were deceived by your magic.
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints,
along with all who had been slain on the earth."

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