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22 Nobody will ever hear music in the city again.
    Nobody will sing there.
    Nobody will make music with harps, or with flutes, or with trumpets.
    There will never be workers who make things in the city.
    Nobody will ever hear the sound of people who make flour again.
23 No light from people's lamps will ever shine in the city again.
    Nobody will ever hear the happy voices of a man and a woman when they marry.
    Your traders were the most powerful people on the earth.
    You used your magic to deceive people from all nations.
24     Your people killed God's people and his prophets.
    Their blood lies on the ground in the city.
    The blood of everyone on earth that people have killed is also there.
    This shows that you are guilty of their murder.’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 18:24 God completely destroys the Devil's city, which John calls ‘Babylon’. Many people became rich and powerful because of that city. They thought that money and power were more important than God. But nobody who serves the Devil will be happy in the end. Nobody can be really happy unless they serve God.