For all the nations have drunk[a]
the wine of her sexual immorality,
which brings wrath.(A)
The kings of the earth
have committed sexual immorality with her,
and the merchants of the earth
have grown wealthy from her sensuality and excess.(B)

Then I heard another voice from heaven:

Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins(C)
or receive any of her plagues.
For her sins are piled up[b] to heaven,(D)
and God has remembered her crimes.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:3 Some mss read collapsed; other mss read fallen
  2. 18:5 Or sins have reached up

For all the nations have drunk
    the maddening wine of her adulteries.(A)
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,(B)
    and the merchants of the earth grew rich(C) from her excessive luxuries.”(D)

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“‘Come out of her, my people,’[a](E)
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;(F)
for her sins are piled up to heaven,(G)
    and God has remembered(H) her crimes.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:4 Jer. 51:45