2 And he cried out in force, saying: Fallen fallen is Babylon the great: and it is become the habitation of devils, and the custody of every unclean spirit, & the custody of every unclean & hateful bird:📜💬📚

3 because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have fornicated with her: and the merchants of the earth were made rich by the virtue of her delicacies.📜💬📚

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her my people: that you be not partakers of her sins, and receive not of her plagues.📜💬📚

5 Because her sins are come even to heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.📜💬📚

6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double ye double according to her works: In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her.📜💬📚

7 As much as she hath glorified her self, & hath been in delicacies, so much give her torment and mourning: because she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and widow I am not, and mourning I shall not see.📜💬📚

8 Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine, & with fire she shall be burnt: because God is strong that shall judge her.📜💬📚

Lament over Babylon

9 And the kings of the earth, which have fornicated with her, & have lived in delicacies, shall weep, and bewail themselves upon her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning:📜💬📚

10 standing far off for the fear of her torments, saying: Woe, woe, that great city Babylon, that strong city: because in one hour is thy judgement come.📜💬📚

11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep, & mourn upon her: because no man shall buy their merchandise any more,📜💬📚

12 merchandise of gold and silver and precious stone: and of pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, & scarlet and all Thyine wood, and all vessels of ivory, and all vessels of precious stone and of brass and iron and marble,📜💬📚

13 and cinnamon, and of odours, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and flour, & wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, & slaves, and souls of men.📜💬📚

14 And the apples of the desire of thy soul are departed from thee, and all fat and goodly things are perished from thee, and they shall no more find them.📜💬📚

15 The merchants of these things which are made rich, shall stand far from her for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning,📜💬📚

16 & saying: Woe, woe, that great city, which was clothed with silk, and purple, and scarlet, and was gilted with gold, and precious stone, and pearls:📜💬📚

17 because in one hour are so great riches made desolate: and every governor, & every one that saileth into the lake, and the ship-men, and they that work in the sea, stood a far off,📜💬📚

18 and cried seeing the place of her burning, saying: What other is like to this great city?📜💬📚

19 And they threw dust upon their heads, and cried weeping and mourning, saying: Woe, woe, that great city, in the which all were made rich that had ships in the sea, of her prices: because in one hour she is desolate.📜💬📚

20 Rejoice over her, heaven, and ye holy Apostles and Prophets: because God hath judged your judgement of her.📜💬📚

Doom of Babylon

21 And one strong Angel took up as it were a great millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying: With this violence shall Babylon that great city be thrown, and shall now be found no more.📜💬📚

22 And the voice of harpers, and of Musicians, and of them that sing on shalm and trumpet, shall no more be heard in thee, & every artificer of every art shall be found no more in thee, and the noise of the mill shall no more be heard in thee,📜💬📚

23 and the light of the lamp shall no more shine in thee, & the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall no more be heard in thee: because thy merchants were the princes of the earth, because all nations have erred in thine enchantments.📜💬📚

24 And in her is found the blood of the Prophets and Saints, and of all that were slain in the earth.📜💬📚

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Revelation 18 📜 📕 ↷

Babylon Is Fallen

Lament over Babylon

Doom of Babylon

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