Revelation 18:10 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁰ They will stand far away, out of fear over her torment [Note: They will keep their distance for fear of becoming involved in the torment themselves], saying, ‘It is too bad for the great, strong city of Babylon! Your judgment has come in a single hour.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ They will stand a long way off, in terror of her torment, and they will cry, Woe and alas, the great city, the mighty city, Babylon! In one single hour how your doom (judgment) has overtaken you!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of the pain she suffers, and they will say, ‘Oh, the horror! Babylon, you great city, you powerful city! In a single hour your judgment has come.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ standing far away, out of fear of her torments, saying: 'Woe! Woe! to Babylon, that great city, that strong city. For in one hour, your judgment has arrived.'

Revelation 18:10 Cross References

Revelation 11:8

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city [Note: See the following passages on this “great city,” 14:8; 16:19; 17:5,18; 18:2, 10, 16, 18, 19, and 21] where the Lord was crucified, which is spiritually called Sodom, or Egypt.

Revelation 14:8

Then [I saw] a second angel following [him]. He said, “Fallen! Great Babylon has fallen. She has forced all the nations to drink the wine of her passionate sexual immorality [Note: The word “passionate” here could also mean “angry”].”

Revelation 16:19

And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations were destroyed. And God remembered the great Babylon and made her drink from the cup of wine of His fierce anger.

Revelation 17:12

“And the ten horns you saw are ten kings, who have not received a kingdom yet, but for one hour they will receive authority as kings, along with the beast.

Revelation 18:18

and called out as they watched the smoke of the burning [city], ‘What city was ever as great as this one?’

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads, and lamented and cried out loud, saying, ‘It is too bad for the great city, from which all ocean shipping companies got rich on her wealth! For in a single hour she was wasted.”

Revelation 18:21

Then a mighty angel picked up a rock the size of a huge millstone and threw it into the ocean, saying, “This is how the great city of Babylon will be violently thrown down and will never be found again.

Revelation 18:8

So, all at once her plagues [i.e., judgments] will fall upon her. [They will be] death and grief and famine. And she will be burned up with fire, for the Lord God who judges her, is mighty.”