Revelation 18:7

New American Bible - revised edition

To the measure of her boasting and wantonness repay her in torment and grief; for she said to herself, ‘I sit enthroned as queen; I am no widow, and I will never know grief.’

Cross References

Psalm 10:6

They say in their hearts, “We will never fall; never will we see misfortune.”

Psalm 45:9

With myrrh, aloes, and cassia your robes are fragrant. From ivory-paneled palaces stringed instruments bring you joy.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall.

Lamentations 1:1

How solitary sits the city, once filled with people. She who was great among the nations is now like a widow. Once a princess among the provinces, now a toiling slave.

Ezekiel 23:34

You shall drink it dry, its very sherds you will gnaw; And you shall tear out your breasts; for I have spoken—oracle of the Lord God.

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of your heart has deceived you— you who dwell in mountain crevices, in your lofty home, Who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to earth?”

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that dwelt secure, That told itself, “I and there is no one else”? How it has become a waste, a lair for wild animals! Those who pass by it hiss, and shake their fists!

1 Timothy 5:11

But exclude younger widows, for when their sensuality estranges them from Christ, they want to marry

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have drunk the wine of her licentious passion. The kings of the earth had intercourse with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury.”

Revelation 18:9

The kings of the earth who had intercourse with her in their wantonness will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her pyre.