Add parallel Print Page Options

Everything that he decides is right and fair.
    He has punished that great prostitute.
    She led people on the earth to do wicked things.
    She murdered God's servants with her own hands.
    But now God has punished her as she deserves.’[a]

Then the crowd of people in heaven shouted again,

‘Praise the Lord our God!
The smoke from the fire that burns that city will go up for ever.’

The 24 leaders and the four beings that are alive then threw themselves down on the ground. They worshipped God, who was sitting on the throne. They said, ‘It is true! Praise the Lord God!’

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 19:2 Babylon and other wicked cities are like a prostitute. They cause people to turn away from God, so that they are not faithful to him.

    for true and just are his judgments.(A)
He has condemned the great prostitute(B)
    who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”(C)

And again they shouted:

“Hallelujah!(D)
The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”(E)

The twenty-four elders(F) and the four living creatures(G) fell down(H) and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried:

“Amen, Hallelujah!”(I)

Read full chapter

For (A)true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He (B)has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.” Again they said, “Alleluia! (C)Her smoke rises up forever and ever!” And (D)the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, (E)“Amen! Alleluia!”

Read full chapter