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A Voice Says, Come Out of Her, My People. Babylon’s Judgment Comes In One Day

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying “Come out of her, my people, so-that you will not participate in her sins, and so that you will not receive of her plagues, because her sins reached as far as heaven, and God remembered her wrongs. Render[a] to her as indeed she herself rendered, and double[b] the doubles in accordance with her works. Mix double for her in the cup in which she mixed. To the degree she glorified herself and lived-luxuriously[c], to that degree give her torment and mourning. Because she says in her heart that ‘I sit as queen and I am not a widow, and I will never see mourning’, for this reason her plagues will come in one day— death[d] and mourning and famine— and she will be burned-up with fire, because the Lord God, the One having judged her, is strong[e].

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:6 This may be addressed to God’s agents for Babylon’s destruction (17:16-17); or, this may be a prayer to God by the voice in v 4.
  2. Revelation 18:6 That is, give back to her double for the things she doubled to others.
  3. Revelation 18:7 Or, lived-sensually.
  4. Revelation 18:8 Or, pestilence.
  5. Revelation 18:8 Or, mighty, powerful.

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