¹¹And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any more—¹²cargo of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple cloth and silk and scarlet cloth and all kinds of scented wood and all kinds of ivory goods and all kinds of goods of precious wood and bronze and iron and marble ¹³and cinnamon and amomum^d and incense and ointment and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine wheat flour and wheat and domesticated animals and sheep and horses and carriages and slaves^e and human lives.

¹⁴“And the fruit your soul desires^f has departed from you,

and all the luxury and the splendor has perished from you,

and they will never find them any more.”

¹⁵The merchants of these things, who became rich from them, will stand far off^g, weeping and mourning because of the fear of her torment, ¹⁶saying,

“Woe, woe, the great city,

dressed in fine linen and purple cloth and scarlet cloth,

and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls,

¹⁷because in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!”

And every shipmaster and every seafarer^h and sailors and all those who labor on the sea stood far offⁱ ¹⁸and began to cry out when they^* saw the smoke of her burning, saying, “Who is like the great city?” ¹⁹And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying,

“Woe, woe, the great city,

in which all those who had ships on the sea

became rich from her prosperity,

because in one hour she has been laid waste!”

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Footnotes

dOr “spice”; the term can refer to “spice” in general, or specifically to amomum, a spice from India
eLiterally “bodies”
fLiterally “your fruit of desire”
gLiterally “from afar”
hLiterally “everyone who sails to a place”
iLiterally “from afar”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal