Revelation 18:6

New International Reader's Version

Do to her as she has done to others. Pay her back double for what she has done. Pour her a double dose of what she has poured for others.

Cross References

Psalm 137:8

People of Babylon, you are sentenced to be destroyed. Happy is the person who pays you back according to what you have done to us.

Psalm 28:4

Pay them back for their evil actions. Pay them back for what their hands have done. Give them exactly what they should get.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak tenderly to the people of Jerusalem. Announce to them that their hard labor has been completed. Tell them that their sin has been paid for. Tell them the Lord has punished them enough for all their sins.”

Isaiah 61:7

Instead of being put to shame you will receive a double share of wealth. Instead of being dishonored you will be glad to be in your land. You will receive a double share of riches there. And you’ll be filled with joy that will last forever.

Jeremiah 16:18

I will pay them back double for their sin and the evil things they have done. They have made my land ‘unclean.’ They have set up lifeless statues of their evil gods. They have filled my land with them. I hate those gods.”

Jeremiah 17:18

Let those who attack me be put to shame. But keep me from shame. Let them be terrified. But keep me from terror. Bring the day of trouble on them. Destroy them once and for all.

Jeremiah 50:15

Shout against them on every side! They are giving up. The towers of the city are falling. Its walls are being pulled down. The Lord is paying back its people. So pay them back yourselves. Do to them what they have done to others.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Send for men armed with bows and arrows. Send them against Babylon. Set up camp all around it. Do not let anyone escape. Pay it back for what its people have done. Do to them what they have done to others. They have dared to disobey me. I am the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 51:24

“Judah, I will pay Babylon back. You will see it with your own eyes. I will pay back all those who live in Babylon. I will pay them back for all the wrong things they have done in Zion,” announces the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:49

“Babylon’s people have killed my people Israel. They have also killed people all over the earth. So now Babylon itself must fall.

Lamentations 3:64

Lord, pay them back. Punish them for what their hands have done.

Zechariah 9:12

Return to your place of safety, you prisoners who still have hope. Even now I announce that I will give you back much more than you had before.

2 Timothy 4:14

Remember Alexander, the one who works with metal. He did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he has done.

Revelation 13:10

“Everyone who is supposed to be captured will be captured. Everyone who is supposed to be killed by a sword will be killed by a sword.” (Jeremiah 15:2) So God’s people must be patient and faithful.

Revelation 14:10

They, too, will drink the wine of God’s great anger. His wine has been poured full strength into the cup of his anger. They will be burned with flaming sulfur. The holy angels and the Lamb will see it happen.

Revelation 16:19

The great city split into three parts. The cities of the nations crumbled and fell. God remembered Babylon the Great. He gave Babylon the cup filled with the wine of his terrible anger.

Revelation 17:2

The kings of the earth took part in her evil ways. The people living on earth were drunk with the wine of her terrible sins.”

Revelation 17:4

The woman was dressed in purple and bright red. She was gleaming with gold, jewels and pearls. In her hand she held a golden cup filled with things that God hates. It was filled with her terrible, dirty sins.

Revelation 18:20

“You heavens, be glad for this! You people of God, be glad! You apostles and prophets, be glad! God has judged her with the judgment she gave to you.”