4. I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of Babylon, my people, so that you do not participate in her sins and suffer from any of her plagues.
5. Her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
6. Do to her what she has done. Give her twice as much as she gave. Serve her a drink in her own cup twice as large as the drink she served others.
7. She gave herself glory and luxury. Now give her just as much torture and misery. She says to herself, ‘I’m a queen on a throne, not a widow. I’ll never be miserable.’
8. For this reason her plagues of death, misery, and starvation will come in a single day. She will be burned up in a fire, because the Lord God, who judges her, is powerful.
9. “The kings of the earth who had sex with her and lived in luxury with her will cry and mourn over her when they see the smoke rise from her raging fire.
10. Frightened by her torture, they will stand far away and say,‘How horrible, how horrible it is for that important city,the powerful city Babylon!In one moment judgment has come to it!’
11. “The merchants of the earth cry and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo anymore.
12. No one buys their cargo of gold, silver, gems, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, bright red cloth, all kinds of citron wood, articles made of ivory and very costly wood, bronze, iron, marble,
13. cinnamon, spices, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, wagons, slaves (that is, humans).
14. ‘The fruit you craved is gone.All your luxuries and your splendor have disappeared.No one will ever find them again.’
15. “Frightened by her torture, the merchants who had become rich by selling these things will stand far away. They will cry and mourn,
16. saying,‘How horrible, how horrible for that important citywhich was wearing fine linen, purple clothes,bright red clothes, gold jewelry, gems, and pearls.