Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

⁴⁰ With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”^(A)

¹² The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you?^(A) Get them out of here, ¹³ because we^(B) are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great^(C) that he has sent us to destroy it.”^(D)

¹⁴ So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry^[a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!^(E)” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.^(F)

¹⁵ With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away^(G) when the city is punished.^(H)”

¹⁶ When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters^(I) and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.^(J)

⁸ A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’^[a](A) which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”^(B)

⁹ A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast^(C) and its image^(D) and receives its mark on their forehead^(E) or on their hand, ¹⁰ they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury,^(F) which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.^(G) They will be tormented with burning sulfur^(H) in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever.^(I) There will be no rest day or night^(J) for those who worship the beast and its image,^(K) or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”^(L)

¹⁷ Therefore,