Revelation 18:19

Modern English Version

They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying: ‘Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships in the sea grew rich from her wealth! In one hour she has been laid waste!’

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:19

So Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and left, wailing as she went.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites were assembled with fasting and sackcloth, and there was dirt on them.

Job 2:12

They saw him from a distance and did not recognize him, so they wept aloud. Each one tore his robe, and they tossed dust into the air above their heads.

Isaiah 13:19

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean’s excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they throw dust on their heads and gird themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 27:30

And they shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow in ashes.

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua ripped his clothes. He and the Israelite elders fell on their faces to the ground in front of the ark of the Lord until evening and threw dirt upon their heads.

Revelation 17:16

These ten horns and the beast which you saw will hate the prostitute; they will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Revelation 18:10

Standing far off for the fear of her torment, they will say: ‘Alas, alas for that great city, that mighty city, Babylon! In one hour your judgment has come.’

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth have committed adultery with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”

Revelation 18:8

Therefore her plagues will come in one day — death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

1 Samuel 4:12

There ran a man of Benjamin from the battle line, and he came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn and with dust upon his head.