Revelation 18:4-11

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⁴Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

^(A)“Come out of her, my people,
    lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;
⁵for ^(B)her sins are heaped high as heaven,
    and ^(C)God has remembered her iniquities.
⁶^(D)Pay her back as she herself has paid back others,
    and repay her ^(E)double for her deeds;
    mix a double portion for her ^(F)in the cup she mixed.
⁷^(G)As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
    so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
    ^(H)‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
    and mourning I shall never see.’
⁸For this reason her plagues will come ^(I)in a single day,
    death and mourning and famine,
and ^(J)she will be burned up with fire;
    for ^(K)mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”

⁹And ^(L)the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, ^(M)will weep and wail over her ^(N)when they see the smoke of her burning. ¹⁰^(O)They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

“Alas! Alas! ^(P)You great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For ^(Q)in a single hour your judgment has come.”

¹¹And ^(R)the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore,

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