19:1–2: After these things I heard, as it were, the loud voice of a large crowd in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, 2 because his judgments [are] true and right, because he has judged [= punished] the big whore, who as such [= in line with her whoredom] was corrupting the earth with her whoredom, and has avenged his slaves’ blood, [which was shed] by her hand [compare Genesis 4:11; 2 Kings 9:7; Daniel 4:37].” “After