THE FALL OF BABYLON THE GREAT

18 After this I saw another angel with great authority coming down from heaven,ah and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. 2 He called out in a mighty voice:

It has fallen,K

Babylon the Great has fallen!ai

She has become a home for demons,

a haunt for every unclean spirit,

a haunt for every unclean bird,

and a hauntL for every unclean and despicable beast.M,aj

3 For all the nations have drunkN

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

4 Then I heard another voice from heaven:

Come out of her, my people,

so that you will not share in her sinsc

or receive any of her plagues.

5 For her sins are piled upA to heaven,d

and God has remembered her crimes.e

6 Pay her back the way she also paid,f

and double it according to her works.g

In the cup in which she mixed,h

mix a double portion for her.

7 As much as she glorified herself and indulged her sensual and excessive ways,

give her that much torment and grief.

For she says in her heart,

“I sit as a queen;

I am not a widow,

and I will never see grief.”i

8 For this reason her plagues will come in just one day—

death and grief and famine.j

She will be burned up with fire,k

because the Lord God who judgesl her is mighty.m