11. The merchants of the world will weep and mourn for her, for there is no one left to buy their goods.
12. She bought great quantities of gold, silver, jewels, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet cloth; things made of fragrant thyine wood, ivory goods, and objects made of expensive wood; and bronze, iron, and marble.
13. She also bought cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, wagons, and bodies—that is, human slaves.
14. “The fancy things you loved so muchare gone,” they cry.“All your luxuries and splendorare gone forever,never to be yours again.”
15. The merchants who became wealthy by selling her these things will stand at a distance, terrified by her great torment. They will weep and cry out,
16. “How terrible, how terrible for that great city!She was clothed in finest purple and scarlet linens,decked out with gold and precious stones and pearls!