Revelation 18:14

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Babylon, the things your heart desired have all escaped from you. Every luxury and all your glory will be lost for ever. You will never get them back.

Cross References

Psalm 106:14

They became greedy for food and tested you there in the desert.

Psalm 78:18

They stubbornly tested God and demanded from him what they wanted to eat.

Numbers 11:34

After they had buried the people who had been so greedy for meat, they called the place “Graves for the Greedy”.

Numbers 11:4

One day some worthless foreigners among the Israelites became greedy for food, and even the Israelites themselves began moaning, “We don't have any meat!

Matthew 11:8

What kind of man did you go out to see? Was he someone dressed in fine clothes? People who dress like that live in the king's palace.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, “You fool! Tonight you will die. Then who will get what you have stored up?”

Luke 16:25

Abraham answered, “My friend, remember that while you lived, you had everything good, and Lazarus had everything bad. Now he is happy, and you are in pain.

1 Corinthians 10:6

What happened to them is a warning to keep us from wanting to do the same evil things.

James 4:2

You want something you don't have, and you will do anything to get it. You will even kill! But you still cannot get what you want, and you won't get it by fighting and arguing. You should pray for it.

Revelation 18:13

No one will buy their cinnamon, spices, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, chariots, slaves, and other humans.

Revelation 18:15

The merchants had become rich because of her. But when they saw her sufferings, they were terrified. They stood at a distance, crying and mourning.