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!”
11. Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer –
12. cargo such as gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all sorts of things made of citron wood, all sorts of objects made of ivory, all sorts of things made of expensive wood, bronze, iron and marble,
13. cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumed ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil and costly flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, slaves and human lives.
14. (The ripe fruit you greatly desiredhas gone from you,and all your luxury and splendorhave gone from you – they will never ever be found again!)
15. The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,
16. saying, “Woe, woe, O great city – dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet clothing,and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls –
17. because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!”And every ship’s captain, and all who sail along the coast – seamen, and all who make their living from the sea, stood a long way off
18. and began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, “Who is like the great city?”
19. And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning, “Woe, Woe, O great city – in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth – because in a single hour she has been destroyed!”
20. (Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets,for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!)
21. Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,“With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown downand it will never be found again!