Then I heard another voice from heaven:

Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins(A)
or receive any of her plagues.
For her sins are piled up[a] to heaven,(B)
and God has remembered her crimes.(C)
Pay her back the way she also paid,(D)
and double it according to her works.(E)
In the cup in which she mixed,(F)
mix a double portion for her.
As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways,
give her that much torment and grief.
For she says in her heart,
“I sit as a queen;
I am not a widow,
and I will never see grief.”(G)
For this reason her plagues will come in just one day—
death and grief and famine.(H)
She will be burned up with fire,(I)
because the Lord God who judges(J) her is mighty.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:5 Or sins have reached up

The Warning to Leave Babylon

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,

“Come out of her, my people,
    so that you don’t participate in her sins
        and also suffer from her diseases.
For her sins are piled as high as heaven,
    and God has remembered her crimes.
Do to her as she herself has done,
    and give her double for her deeds.
Mix a double drink for her in the cup she mixed.
Just as she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
    inflict on her just as much torture and misery.

In her heart she says,
    ‘I am a queen on a throne, not a widow.
        I will never see misery.’
For this reason, her diseases that result in death, misery, and famine
    will come in a single day.
She will be burned up in a fire,
    because powerful is the Lord God who judges her.”

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