1. After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.
2. He shouted with a powerful voice:“Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great!She has become a lair for demons,a haunt for every unclean spirit,a haunt for every unclean bird,a haunt for every unclean and detested beast.
3. For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion,and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her,and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”
4. Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,
5. because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.
6. Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.
7. As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’
8. For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”
9. Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.
10. They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,“Woe, woe, O great city,Babylon the powerful city!For in a single hour your doom has come!”