Revelation 18:4-8

New International Version

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

⁴Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“‘Come out of her, my people,’^[a]^(A)
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;^(B)
⁵for her sins are piled up to heaven,^(C)
    and God has remembered^(D) her crimes.
⁶Give back to her as she has given;
    pay her back^(E) double^(F) for what she has done.
    Pour her a double portion from her own cup.^(G)
⁷Give her as much torment and grief
    as the glory and luxury she gave herself.^(H)
In her heart she boasts,
    ‘I sit enthroned as queen.
I am not a widow;^[b]
    I will never mourn.’^(I)
⁸Therefore in one day^(J) her plagues will overtake her:
    death, mourning and famine.
She will be consumed by fire,^(K)
    for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

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Footnotes

Revelation 18:4 Jer. 51:45
Revelation 18:7 See Isaiah 47:7,8.

Revelation 18:4-8

International Standard Version

The Warning to Leave Babylon

⁴Then 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.
⁵For her sins are piled as high as heaven,
    and God has remembered her crimes.
⁶Do 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.
⁷Just 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.’
⁸For 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.”