Revelation 18:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Give that city the same as she gave to others. Pay her back twice as much as she did. Prepare wine for her that is twice as strong as the wine she prepared for others.

Cross References

Jeremiah 50:29

“Call for the archers. Tell them to attack Babylon. Tell them to surround the city. Don’t let anyone escape. Pay her back for the bad things she has done. Do to her what she has done to other nations. Babylon did not respect the Lord. Babylon was very rude to the Holy One of Israel. So punish Babylon.

Psalm 137:8

Babylon, you will be destroyed! Bless the one who pays you back for what you did to us.

Jeremiah 50:15

Soldiers around Babylon, shout the cry of victory! Babylon has surrendered! Her walls and towers have been pulled down! The Lord is giving her people the punishment they deserve. You nations should give Babylon the punishment she deserves. Do to her what she has done to other nations.

Revelation 16:19

The great city split into three parts. The cities of the nations were destroyed. And God did not forget to punish Babylon the Great. He gave that city the cup filled with the wine of his terrible anger.

Revelation 14:10

They will drink the wine of God’s anger. This wine is prepared with all its strength in the cup of God’s anger. They will be tortured with burning sulfur before the holy angels and the Lamb.

Jeremiah 51:24

But I will repay Babylonia and all the Babylonians for all the evil things they did to Zion. I will pay them back so that you can see it, Judah.” This is what the Lord said.

Revelation 17:4

The woman was dressed in purple and red. She was shining with the gold, jewels, and pearls that she was wearing. She had a golden cup in her hand. This cup was filled with terribly evil things and the filth of her sexual sin.

Zechariah 9:12

Prisoners, go home! Now you have something to hope for. I am telling you now, I am coming back to you.

Jeremiah 17:18

People are hurting me. Make them ashamed, but don’t disappoint me. Let them be filled with fear, but don’t give me any reason to fear. Bring the terrible day of disaster to my enemies. Break them, and break them again.

Jeremiah 16:18

I will pay the people of Judah back for the evil things they did—I will punish them two times for every sin. I will do this because they have made my land ‘dirty.’ They made my land ‘dirty’ with their terrible idols. I hate those idols, but they have filled my country with their idols.”

2 Timothy 4:14

Alexander the metalworker caused me so much harm. The Lord will punish him for what he did.

Jeremiah 51:49

“Babylon killed people from Israel. Babylon killed people from every place on earth. So Babylon must fall!

Revelation 17:2

The rulers of the earth sinned sexually with her. The people of the earth became drunk from the wine of her sexual sin.”

Revelation 13:10

Whoever is to be a prisoner, will be a prisoner. Whoever is to be killed with a sword, will be killed with a sword. This means that God’s holy people must have patience and faith.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak kindly to Jerusalem and tell her, ‘Your time of service is finished. You have paid the price for your sins.’ I, the Lord, have punished you twice for every sin you committed.”

Isaiah 61:7

In the past, other people shamed you and said bad things to you. You were shamed much more than any other people. So in your land you will get two times more than other people. You will get the joy that continues forever.

Psalm 28:4

They do bad things to others, so make bad things happen to them. Give them the punishment they deserve.

Revelation 18:20

Be happy because of this, O heaven! Be happy, God’s holy people and apostles and prophets! God has punished her because of what she did to you.’”

Lamentations 3:64

Give them back what they deserve, Lord. Pay them back for what they have done.