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The Cup of God’s Wrath

15 For thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.(A)

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16 They shall drink and stagger and go out of their minds because of the sword that I am sending among them.(A)

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Then another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her prostitution.”(A)

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The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,(A)

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For all the nations have fallen[a]
    from the wine of the wrath of her prostitution,
and the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[b] with her,
    and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power[c] of her luxury.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.3 Other ancient authorities read all the nations have drunk
  2. 18.3 Or prostitution
  3. 18.3 Or resources