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Revelation 18:23

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The light of a lamp

will never shine in you again.

The voice of bridegroom and bride

will never be heard in you again.f

Your merchants were the world’s important people.g

By your magic spellh all the nations were led astray.

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Cross references

  1. fJer 7:34; 16:9; 25:10
  2. gver 3; Isa 23:8
  3. hNa 3:4

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

and the light of a lamp

will shine in you no more,

and the voice of bridegroom and bride

will be heard in you no more,

for your merchants were the great ones of the earth,

and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The light of a lamp

will never shine in you again.

The voice of bridegroom and bride

will never be heard in you again.

Your merchants were the world’s important people.

By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

the light of a lamp

will never shine in you again;

and the voice of a groom and bride

will never be heard in you again.

All this will happen

because your merchants

were the nobility of the earth,

because all the nations were deceived

by your sorcery.

NLTNew Living Translation

The light of a lamp

will never shine in you again.

The happy voices of brides and grooms

will never be heard in you again.

For your merchants were the greatest in the world,

and you deceived the nations with your sorceries.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the light of a lamp

will never shine in you again!

And the sound of a bridegroom and bride

will never be heard in you again!

For your merchants were the most important people of the earth,

because with your sorcery they deceived all the nations.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee;

And the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee:

For thy merchants were the great men of the earth;

For by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.