¹⁸ Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder^(A) and a severe earthquake.^(B) No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth,^(C) so tremendous was the quake. ¹⁹ The great city^(D) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered^(E) Babylon the Great^(F) and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.^{(G) 20} Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.^{(H) 21} From the sky huge hailstones,^(I) each weighing about a hundred pounds,^[a] fell on people. And they cursed God^(J) on account of the plague of hail,^(K) because the plague was so terrible.