Revelation 18:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Babylon's evil and immoral wine has made all nations drunk. Every king on earth has slept with her, and every merchant on earth is rich because of her evil desires.”

Cross References

Isaiah 47:15

These are the fortune-tellers you have done business with all your life. But they don't know where they are going, and they can't save you.

Jeremiah 51:34

The people of Jerusalem say, “King Nebuchadnezzar made us panic. That monster stuffed himself with us and our treasures, leaving us empty— he gobbled up what he wanted and spat out the rest.

Jeremiah 51:7

Babylon was my golden cup, filled with the wine of my anger. The nations of the world got drunk on this wine and went insane.

Lamentations 4:5

All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on rubbish heaps.

Nahum 3:4

You were nothing more than a prostitute using your magical charms and witchcraft to attract and trap nations.

Luke 7:25

What kind of man did you really go out to see? Was he someone dressed in fine clothes? People who wear expensive clothes and live in luxury are in the king's palace.

1 Timothy 5:11

Don't put young widows on the list. They may later have a strong desire to get married. Then they will turn away from Christ

Revelation 14:8

A second angel followed and said, “The great city of Babylon has fallen! This is the city that made all nations drunk and immoral. Now God is angry, and Babylon has fallen.”

Revelation 17:2

Every king on earth has slept with her, and her shameless ways are like wine that has made everyone on earth drunk.”

Revelation 18:19

They cried loudly, and in their sorrow they threw dust on their heads, as they said, “Pity the great city of Babylon! Everyone who sailed the seas became rich from her treasures. But in a single hour the city was destroyed.

Revelation 18:23

Lamps will no longer shine anywhere in Babylon, and couples will never again say wedding vows there. Her merchants ruled the earth, and by her witchcraft she fooled all nations.

Revelation 18:7

That woman honoured herself with a life of luxury. Reward her now with suffering and pain. “Deep in her heart Babylon said, ‘I am the queen! Never will I be a widow or know what it means to be sad.’

Revelation 18:9

Every king on earth who slept with her and shared in her luxury will mourn. They will weep, when they see the smoke from that fire.