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(A)To the degree that she glorified herself and (B)lived [a]sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning, for she says in her heart, ‘(C)I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’ For this reason (D)in one day her plagues will come, [b]pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be (E)burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her (F)is strong.

“And (G)the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and (H)lived [c]sensuously with her, will (I)cry and lament over her when they (J)see the smoke of her burning,

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  1. Revelation 18:7 Or luxuriously
  2. Revelation 18:8 Lit death
  3. Revelation 18:9 Or luxuriously

Give her as much torment and grief
    as the glory and luxury she gave herself.(A)
In her heart she boasts,
    ‘I sit enthroned as queen.
I am not a widow;[a]
    I will never mourn.’(B)
Therefore in one day(C) her plagues will overtake her:
    death, mourning and famine.
She will be consumed by fire,(D)
    for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

Threefold Woe Over Babylon’s Fall

“When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her(E) and shared her luxury(F) see the smoke of her burning,(G) they will weep and mourn over her.(H)

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  1. Revelation 18:7 See Isaiah 47:7,8.