Bible verses about "nimrod" | Riverside

¹ AFTER this I saw another angel descending from heaven with great power, and the earth was lit up with his splendor. ² He shouted with a powerful voice, saying, "Babylon the Great has fallen, has fallen, and has become a habitation of demons and a stronghold of every impure spirit and a stronghold of every unclean and detested bird. ³ For all the nations have drunk of the wine of her passion for lewdness and the kings of the earth have committed lewdness with her and by the excess of her luxury the merchants of the earth have grown rich." ⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you may not take part in her sins nor receive a share in her plagues, ⁵ for her sins have been heaped up to heaven and God has remembered her unrighteous deeds. ⁶ Repay to her as she has paid, and make it double for her deeds. In the cup she mixed mix double for her. ⁷ As much as she glorified herself and played the wanton, so much give her torture and woe. For in her heart she says, 'I sit here a queen; no widow am I and woe I shall not see.' ⁸ For this reason in one day her plagues will come, death and woe and famine, and she shall be burned up in fire. For strong is the Lord God who has judged her. ⁹ "The kings of the earth who have committed lewdness with her and have reveled luxuriously, when they see the smoke of her burning, will wail and beat their breasts. ¹⁰ Standing afar because of their dismay at her torture, they will say, 'Alas, alas, O great city, Babylon the strong city, for in one hour your doom has come!' ¹¹ The merchants of the earth will weep and wail over her, for no one will any longer buy their cargoes, ¹² cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, all kinds of citrus wood and their many kinds of articles of ivory and their many kinds of articles of costliest wood and brass and iron and marble, ¹³ and cinnamon and spice and incense and ointment and frankincense and wine, and olive oil and fine flour and wheat, and cattle and sheep and horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men. ¹⁴ The ripe fruits for which your soul longed have gone from you, and all your dainty and splendid things are lost to you and they will never more be found. ¹⁵ The traders in these things who grew rich from her will stand afar through dismay at her torture, weeping and wailing ¹⁶ and saying: 'Alas, alas, for the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls! ¹⁷ For in one hour this vast wealth has given place to desolation.' " Every ship captain and every one who sails anywhere, and sailors and all who gain their living on the sea, stood afar ¹⁸ and shouted as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "What city could compare with the great city?" ¹⁹ They threw dust upon their heads and shouted as they wept and wailed, saying, "Alas, alas, for the great city in which all who had ships on the sea grew rich from her wealth! For in an hour she has been desolated. ²⁰ Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you the holy and you apostles and prophets! For God has pronounced sentence in your behalf against her." ²¹ Then one strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and hurled it into the sea, saying, "With such violence shall Babylon the great city be hurled down and she will never more be found. ²² The music of harpers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters will never more be heard in you. No master of any art will ever more be found in you. The sound of the mill will never more be heard in you. ²³ The light of a lamp will never more shine in you. The voices of bridegroom and bride will never again be heard in you. Your merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by your magic arts all the nations were led astray. ²⁴ In her was found the blood of prophets and of holy men and of all who had been slain on the earth."

¹ THEN came one of the seven angels that had the seven plagues and spoke with me. He said, "Come here. I will show you the doom of the great prostitute who sits on many waters ² and with whom the kings of the earth have committed lewdness, while the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk with the wine of her lewdness." ³ He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet beast covered with profane names, and with seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She had in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her lewdness. ⁵ On her forehead was written a mysterious name: "Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth." ⁶ I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the holy and with the blood of the witnesses for Jesus. When I saw her I wondered greatly. ⁷ The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystic meaning of the woman and the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. ⁸ The Beast which you saw was and is not and will soon come up out of the abyss and go into destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life will be amazed when they see the Beast that was and is not and will be. ⁹ Here is need for a mind that has wisdom. "The seven heads are seven mountains upon which the woman sits. ¹⁰ Also they are seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he comes he must stay but a little while. ¹¹ The Beast which was and is not is also himself an eighth, yet is one of the seven, and will go into destruction. ¹² The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received kingly power, but they will receive power as kings for one hour with the Beast. ¹³ They have one mind and they give over their power and authority to the Beast. ¹⁴ They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings. They who are with him, called and chosen and faithful, will also conquer." ¹⁵ He said to me, "The waters that you saw where the prostitute was sitting are peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. ¹⁶ The ten horns that you saw and the Beast — they hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked and they will devour her flesh and will burn her up with fire. ¹⁷ For God has put it in their hearts to carry out his purpose, which is that they shall carry out one purpose and give their royal power to the Beast until the words of God are fulfilled. ¹⁸ The woman that you saw is the great city that has kingly power over the kings of the earth."

⁸ But the timid and faithless and abominable and murderers and the unchaste and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars will have their lot in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."