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Revelation 18:16 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls! "
Revelation 18:16
Verse in Context
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14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,
16 saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.’ Every ship master, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’
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Revelation 18:1
"After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory."
Revelation 18:2
"He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hated bird!"
Revelation 18:3
"For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”"
Revelation 18:4
"I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,"
Revelation 18:5
"for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities."
Revelation 18:6
"Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double."
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