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18 Then there were lightning flashes, rumblings, and peals of thunder, and a great earthquake. It was such a violent earthquake that there has never been one like it since the human race began on earth.(A) 19 The great city[a] was split into three parts, and the gentile cities fell. But God remembered great Babylon, giving it the cup filled with the wine of his fury and wrath. 20 [b]Every island fled, and mountains disappeared.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:19 The great city: Rome and the empire.
  2. 16:20–21 See note on Rev 6:12–14. Hailstones: as in the seventh Egyptian plague (Ex 9:23–24); cf. Rev 8:7. Like huge weights: literally, “weighing a talent,” about one hundred pounds.

18 Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder(A) and a severe earthquake.(B) No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth,(C) so tremendous was the quake. 19 The great city(D) split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered(E) Babylon the Great(F) and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.(G) 20 Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found.(H)

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