Revelation 18:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ “Alas, alas, the great city, clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ and saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Alas, alas for the great city that was robed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, bedecked and glittering with gold, with precious stones, and with pearls! [Ezek. 27:31, 36.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl!

Common English Bible

¹⁶ ‘Oh, the horror! The great city that wore fine linen, purple, and scarlet, who glittered with gold, jewels, and pearls—

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ and saying: 'Woe! Woe! to that great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet, and which was adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and was gilt with gold, and precious stones, and pearls.

Revelation 18:16 Cross References

Ezekiel 28:14

You were a cherub; I placed you on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the stones of fire.

Nahum 2:9

“Plunder the silver; plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure! An abundance of every precious thing!”

Revelation 17:3

So he carried me away in the spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 17:4

The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,

Revelation 18:18

and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, “What city was like the great city?”

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.”