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Revelation 18:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Treat her as she has treated others. Make her pay double for what she has done. Make her drink twice as much of what she mixed for others.

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Babylon, you are doomed! I pray the Lord's blessings on anyone who punishes you for what you did to us.

Treat them as they deserve! Punish them for their sins.

Speak kindly to Jerusalem and announce: Your slavery is past; your punishment is over. I, the LORD, made you pay double for your sins.”

They were terribly insulted and horribly ill-treated; now they will be greatly blessed and joyful for ever.

I will punish you double for your sins, because you have made my own land disgusting. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.

Keep me from failure and disgrace, but make my enemies fail and be disgraced. Send destruction to make their worst fears come true.

Attack from every side! Babylon surrenders! The enemy tears down its walls and towers. I am taking my revenge by doing to Babylon what it did to other cities.

Attack Babylon, enemy archers; set up camp around the city, and don't let anyone escape. It challenged me, the holy God, so do to it what it did to other cities.

But now, my people will watch, while I repay you for what you did to Zion.

Babylon must be overthrown, because it slaughtered the people of Israel and of many other nations.

Pay them back for everything they have done, LORD!

and offer you hope. Return to your fortress, because today I will reward you with twice what you had.

Alexander, the metalworker, has hurt me in many ways. But the Lord will pay him back for what he has done.

If you are doomed to be captured, you will be captured. If you are doomed to be killed by a sword, you will be killed by a sword. This means that God's people must learn to endure and be faithful!

You will have to drink the wine that God gives to everyone who makes him angry. You will feel his mighty anger, and you will be tortured with fire and burning sulphur, while the holy angels and the Lamb look on.

The great city of Babylon split into three parts, and the cities of other nations fell. So God made Babylon drink from the wine cup that was filled with his anger.

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

The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet robes, and she wore jewellery made of gold, precious stones, and pearls. In her hand she held a gold cup filled with the filthy and nasty things she had done.

The heavens should be happy with God's people and apostles and prophets. God has punished her for them.”




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