Revelation 18:5

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For her sins have piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her injustices.

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  • Jer 51:9 : 9 We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Leave her, and let each one go to his own land, for her judgment has reached to the heavens and has risen to the skies.
  • Rev 16:19 : 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. Babylon the Great was remembered before God, and He gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of His wrath.
  • Ezra 9:6 : 6 I said, 'My God, I am ashamed and humiliated to lift my face to you, my God, because our sins are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.'
  • Jonah 1:2 : 2 Arise, go to the great city of Nineveh, and proclaim against it, because their wickedness has come up before me.
  • Gen 18:20-21 : 20 Then the LORD said, 'The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and their sin is very grave. 21 'I will go down now and see if what they have done matches the outcry that has come to Me. If not, I will know.'
  • 2 Chr 28:9 : 9 But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them, "Because the LORD, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hands. But you have slain them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.

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  • Rev 18:2-4
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    2 He cried out with a mighty voice, saying, 'Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and detested bird.'

    3 For all the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the abundance of her luxurious living.

    4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, so that you do not share in her sins and so that you do not receive any of her plagues.'

  • Rev 18:6-10
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    6 Repay her as she herself has repaid others, and pay her back double according to her deeds; in the cup she has mixed, mix a double portion for her.

    7 As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and grief, because in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and I will never see grief.'

    8 Because of this, her plagues will come in a single day: death, mourning, and famine. She will be consumed by fire, for the mighty Lord God is the one who judges her.

    9 The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality with her and lived in luxury will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning.

    10 Standing far off because of the fear of her torment, they will say, 'Woe, woe to the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'

  • Rev 18:15-20
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    15 The merchants who became rich from her will stand far off, out of fear for her torment, weeping and mourning,

    16 saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, dressed in fine linen, purple, and crimson, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls!'

    17 For in one hour such great wealth has been destroyed!' Every ship captain, all who travel by ship, sailors, and those who earn their living from the sea stood far off,

    18 And they cried out as they watched the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What city is like the great city?'

    19 And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe to the great city, in which all who owned ships at sea became rich from her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.'

    20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints, apostles, and prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment against her!

  • Rev 19:2-3
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    2 For His judgments are true and just; He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His servants on her.

    3 And again they said, 'Hallelujah! The smoke from her rises forever and ever.'

  • Rev 17:4-6
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    4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her immorality.

    5 On her forehead was written a name: 'Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the Earth.'

    6 I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly amazed.

  • 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. Babylon the Great was remembered before God, and He gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of His wrath.

  • 15 Raise a shout against her on every side! She has surrendered; her towers have fallen, her walls are torn down. This is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done to others.

  • Rev 2:21-22
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    21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.

    22 Look, I will cast her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works.

  • 8 A second angel followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the Great, who made all the nations drink the wine of her passionate immorality."

  • 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth.

  • Rev 17:1-2
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    1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, 'Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters.'

    2 With her, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her immorality.

  • Lam 1:8-10
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    8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

    9 Her uncleanness clings to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed."

    10 The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.

  • 13 It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

  • 12 She has wearied herself with toil, and her heavy corrosion has not gone from her; her rust will be burned away in the fire.

  • 18 And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.

  • 4 All this because of the abundant prostitution of a well-favored harlot, a skilled sorceress, who ensnares nations with her lust and peoples with her witchcraft.

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    35 Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD.

    36 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children you gave to them,

  • 18 I will first repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled My inheritance with their abominations.

  • 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to her bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. After she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.

  • 18 Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

  • 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and sores, but they refused to repent of their deeds.

  • 1 Woe to the rebellious and defiled city, the oppressive one!

  • 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard service is completed, that her sin has been paid for, for she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

  • Ezek 24:7-8
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    7 For the blood she has shed is inside her; she placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

    8 To stir up wrath and bring vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so it would not be covered.

  • 18 By your many sins and your dishonest trade, you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I brought fire out from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all those watching.

  • 58 You have borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations, declares the LORD.

  • 6 But she has rebelled against My rules more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the surrounding countries. They have rejected My judgments and have not walked in My statutes.

  • 9 We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Leave her, and let each one go to his own land, for her judgment has reached to the heavens and has risen to the skies.

  • 30 These things will be done to you because you prostituted yourself to the nations, defiling yourself with their idols.

  • 15 Then he said to me, 'The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.'