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I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues, for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities. Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double. However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’ Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

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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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