Revelation 18:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ therefore her plagues will come in a single day— pestilence and mourning and famine— and she will be burned with fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ So shall her plagues (afflictions, calamities) come thick upon her in a single day, pestilence and anguish and sorrow and famine; and she shall be utterly consumed (burned up with fire), for mighty is the Lord God Who judges her.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged her.

Common English Bible

⁸ This is why her plagues will come in a single day—deadly disease, grief, and hunger. She will be consumed by fire because the Lord God who judges her is powerful.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For this reason, her afflictions shall arrive in one day: death and grief and famine. And she shall be burned with fire. For God, who will judge her, is strong.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine, and she shall be burnt with the fire; because God is strong, who shall judge her.

Revelation 18:8 Cross References

Job 9:19

If it is a contest of strength, he is the strong one! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?

Psalm 62:11

Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,

Isaiah 27:1

On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 9:14

So the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—

Jeremiah 50:31

I am against you, O arrogant one, says the Lord God of hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

Jeremiah 50:34

Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations only for fire, and they have become weary.

Jeremiah 51:6

Flee from the midst of Babylon; save your lives, each of you! Do not perish because of her guilt, for this is the time of the Lord’s vengeance; he is repaying her what is due.

Joel 2:11

The Lord utters his voice at the head of his army; how vast is his host! Numberless are those who obey his command. Truly the day of the Lord is great, terrible indeed—who can endure it?

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Revelation 11:17

singing, “We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty, who are and who were, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.

Revelation 17:16

And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the whore; they will make her desolate and naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.

Revelation 17:18

The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

Revelation 18:17

For in one hour all this wealth has been laid waste!” And all shipmasters and seafarers, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off

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.”

Revelation 19:3

Once more they said, “Hallelujah! The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.”