for (A)her sins are heaped high as heaven,
    and (B)God has remembered her iniquities.

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for her sins are piled up to heaven,(A)
    and God has remembered(B) her crimes.

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19 (A)The great city (B)was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God (C)remembered (D)Babylon the great, (E)to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

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19 The great city(A) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered(B) Babylon the Great(C) and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.(D)

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We would have healed Babylon,
    but she was not healed.
(A)Forsake her, and (B)let us go
    each to his own country,
for (C)her judgment has reached up to heaven
    and has been lifted up even to the skies.

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“‘We would have healed Babylon,
    but she cannot be healed;
let us leave(A) her and each go to our own land,
    for her judgment(B) reaches to the skies,
    it rises as high as the heavens.’

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saying:

“O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities (A)have risen higher than our heads, and our (B)guilt has (C)mounted up to the heavens.

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and prayed:

“I am too ashamed(A) and disgraced, my God, to lift up my face to you, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.(B)

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20 Then the Lord said, “Because (A)the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, 21 (B)I will go down to see whether they have done altogether[a] according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, (C)I will know.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 18:21 Or they deserve destruction; Hebrew they have made a complete end

20 Then the Lord said, “The outcry against Sodom(A) and Gomorrah is so great(B) and their sin so grievous(C) 21 that I will go down(D) and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

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“Arise, go to (A)Nineveh, that (B)great city, and call out against it, (C)for their evil[a] has come up before me.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 1:2 The same Hebrew word can mean evil or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jonah

“Go to the great city of Nineveh(A) and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

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But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, (A)was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage (B)that has reached up to heaven.

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But a prophet of the Lord named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry(A) with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven.(B)

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