Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord’s hand, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore, the nations go mad.
Revelation 17:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those who live on the earth became drunk on the wine of her sexual immorality.’ Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [She] with whom the rulers of the earth have joined in prostitution (idolatry) and with the wine of whose immorality (idolatry) the inhabitants of the earth have become intoxicated. [Jer. 25:15, 16.] American Standard Version (1901) with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication. Common English Bible The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and those who live on earth have become drunk with the wine of her whoring.” Catholic Public Domain Version With her, the kings of the earth have fornicated. And those who inhabit the earth have been inebriated by the wine of her prostitution." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication; and they who inhabit the earth, have been made drunk with the whine of her whoredom. |
Babylon was a gold cup in the Lord’s hand, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore, the nations go mad.
Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute, the attractive mistress of sorcery, who treats nations and clans like merchandise by her prostitution and sorcery,
and told him, ‘Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people are drunk, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.’
And another, a second angel, followed, saying, ‘It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen. She made all the nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath.’
These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his plan by having one purpose and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.
On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss and go to destruction. Those who live on the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast that was, and is not, and is to come.
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.
For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. 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.
The kings of the earth who have committed sexual immorality and shared her sensual and excessive ways will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke from her burning.
Look, I will throw her into a sick-bed and those who commit adultery with her into great affliction. Unless they repent of her works,
Because you have kept my command to endure, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is going to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.
And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.