Revelation 18:8

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 50:31 : 31 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
  • Jer 50:34 : 34 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
  • Rev 18:9-9 : 9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning, 10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'
  • Rev 11:17 : 17 saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned.
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
  • Rev 17:18 : 18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."
  • Rev 18:17 : 17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
  • Rev 18:19 : 19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.
  • Rev 19:3 : 3 A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever."
  • Jer 51:6 : 6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
  • Jer 51:58 : 58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
  • Job 9:19 : 19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
  • Ps 62:11 : 11 God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
  • Isa 27:1 : 1 In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
  • Isa 47:9-9 : 9 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments. 10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me. 11 Therefore evil will come on you; you won't know when it dawns: and mischief will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don't know.

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  • Rev 18:2-7
    6 verses
    87%

    2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

    3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."

    4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don't receive of her plagues,

    5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

    6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

    7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'

  • Rev 18:9-11
    3 verses
    86%

    9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

    10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'

    11 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise any more;

  • Rev 19:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2 for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."

    3 A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever."

  • Rev 18:14-21
    8 verses
    79%

    14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.

    15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;

    16 saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

    17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,

    18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like the great city?'

    19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.

    20 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."

    21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.

  • Rev 17:15-16
    2 verses
    78%

    15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

    16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

  • Rev 14:8
    78%

    8 Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."

  • Rev 16:19
    78%

    19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

  • Rev 17:18
    77%

    18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."

  • Rev 17:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

    5 And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

    6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

  • Rev 17:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

    2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."

  • Jer 50:15
    76%

    15 Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.

  • Rev 2:22
    75%

    22 Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

  • Rev 18:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

    24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."

  • Ezek 28:18
    74%

    18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

  • Ezek 16:41
    74%

    41 They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.

  • Jer 51:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

    8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

  • Rev 11:18
    73%

    18 The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."

  • Ezek 16:38
    73%

    38 I will judge you, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

  • Nah 3:4
    73%

    4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

  • Jer 51:47
    73%

    47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

  • Ezek 24:12
    73%

    12 She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.

  • Mic 1:7
    73%

    7 All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."

  • Jer 50:26
    72%

    26 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

  • Zech 9:4
    72%

    4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

  • Rev 6:17
    72%

    17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"

  • Rev 14:10
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    10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

  • Jer 50:13
    71%

    13 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

  • Jer 19:8
    71%

    8 I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

  • Jer 51:52
    71%

    52 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.