3. For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality,which brings wrath. The kings of the earthhave committed sexual immorality with her,and the merchants of the earthhave grown wealthy from her excessive luxury.
4. Then I heard another voice from heaven:Come out of her, My people,so that you will not share in her sins or receive any of her plagues.
5. For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
6. Pay her back the way she also paid, and double it according to her works. In the cup in which she mixed, mix a double portion for her.
7. As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously,give her that much torment and grief,for she says in her heart,“I sit as a queen;I am not a widow,and I will never see grief.”
8. For this reason her plagues will come in one day —death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.
9. The kings of the earth who have committed sexual immorality and lived luxuriously with her will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning.
10. They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying:Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city!For in a single hour your judgment has come.
11. The merchants of the earth will also weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their merchandise any longer —
12. merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine fabrics of linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; all kinds of fragrant wood products; objects of ivory; objects of expensive wood, brass, iron, and marble;
13. cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine wheat flour, and grain; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and slaves and human lives.
14. The fruit you craved has left you.All your splendid and glamorous things are gone;they will never find them again.
15. The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand far off in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,
16. saying:Woe, woe, the great city,dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet,adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls,
17. for in a single hour such fabulous wealth was destroyed!And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off
18. as they watched the smoke from her burning and kept crying out: “Who is like the great city? ”
19. They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning: Woe, woe, the great city, where all those who have ships on the seabecame rich from her wealth,for in a single hour she was destroyed.