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17 because in one hour all the vast wealth has been laid waste.’ And every ship captain or navigator, and every [a]passenger and sailor, and all who make their living by the sea, stood a long way off,(A) 18 and exclaimed as they watched the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What could be compared to the great city?’ 19 And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, for the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich from her great wealth, because in one hour she has been laid waste!’(B) 20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints (God’s people) and apostles and prophets [who were martyred], because God has executed vengeance for you [through righteous judgment] upon her.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:17 Lit one who sails to a place.

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