Bible verses about "babylon" | Williams

¹³ Your sister-church in Babylon, chosen along with you, and Mark my son, wish to be remembered to you.

¹ After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority and the earth was lighted up with his splendor. ² He shouted with a mighty voice: "She has fallen! Mighty Babylon has fallen! She has become a den for demons, a dungeon for every foul spirit and every unclean and loathsome bird, ³ because all the nations have fallen by drinking the raging wine of her immorality; the kings of the earth have joined her in her immorality, and the businessmen of the earth have grown rich from the wealth of her luxury." ⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins and suffer from her plagues. ⁵ For her sins are piled clear up to heaven, and God has remembered the wrongs which she has done. ⁶ Pay her back in her own coin; give her double for what she has done. In the cup that she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. ⁷ To the same degree in which she has lived in splendor and luxury, give her torture and tears. Because she is always boasting in her heart, 'I sit enthroned as queen; I am not a widow, I shall never experience any sorrow' -- ⁸ for this very reason her plagues will overtake her in a single day, death, grief, and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; because the Lord who has judged her is mighty. ⁹ The kings of the earth who have joined her in her immorality and luxury will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke from her burning. ¹⁰ They will stand a long way off for fear of her torture, saying, 'Alas! Alas for the great city, for Babylon the mighty city, because in a single day your judgment has overtaken you!' ¹¹ The businessmen of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because no one can buy their cargoes anymore -- ¹² cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones, fine linen, silk, and scarlet, all kinds of citron wood, all kinds of goods in ivory and costly woods, bronze, iron, and marble, ¹³ cinnamon, spices, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and the lives of human beings. ¹⁴ The ripe fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, all your luxury and splendor have perished from your hands, and people will never find them again. ¹⁵ The businessmen who dealt in these things, who had grown rich from their business with her, will stand a long way off for fear of her torture, weeping and mourning, ¹⁶ and saying, 'Alas! Alas for the great city that was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, that was decorated in gold, precious stones, and pearls, ¹⁷ because in a single hour a wealth so vast has been destroyed!' All ship pilots and all who travel by sea, sailors and seafaring men, stood a long way off ¹⁸ and cried out when they saw the smoke from her burning, 'What city was like the great city?' ¹⁹ They threw dust on their heads and wept and mourned, crying out, 'Alas! Alas for the great city where all who had ships on the sea grew rich from her great wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.' ²⁰ Celebrate over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets too, because God has taken vengeance on her for you." ²¹ Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying: "With violence like this, Babylon the great city will be hurled to ruin, and it will never be found again. ²² The sound of harpists, musicians, flute-players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsmen of any kind will ever be found in you again, and the sound of the grinding mill will never be heard in you again; ²³ the light of the lamp will never shine in you again; the voice of bride and bridegroom will never be heard in you again. For your businessmen were the great men of the earth; by your magic all the nations have been led astray; ²⁴ in her has been found the blood of prophets, saints, and all who have been slaughtered on the earth."

¹⁹ The great city was broken into three parts; the cities of the heathen fell, and God remembered to give mighty Babylon the cup of the wine of His raging wrath,

¹ Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and spoke to me, saying: "Come, I will show you the doom of the noted prostitute who is seated on many waters, ² in whose prostitution the kings of the earth have joined, and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have been intoxicated." ³ So he carried me away in spiritual rapture to a desert, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet wild beast, covered with blasphemous titles; he had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, decorated in gold and precious stones and pearls, and she had in her hand a cup of gold, full of abominations and the impurities of her immorality. ⁵ On her forehead was written a name with a symbolical meaning, "Mighty Babylon, the mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations." ⁶ I saw the woman drinking herself drunk with the blood of God's people and the blood of the martyred witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was utterly astonished, ⁷ but the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will tell you the symbolical meaning of the woman, and the wild beast with seven heads and ten horns, that carries her. ⁸ The wild beast that you saw, once was but now is no more; he is going to come up out of the abyss, but he is going to be destroyed. The inhabitants of the earth, whose names from the foundation of the world have not been written in the book of life, will be astonished when they see that the wild beast once was but now is no more, and yet is to come. ⁹ Here is scope for a mind that is packed with wisdom. The seven heads are the seven hills on which the woman is seated. ¹⁰ There are also seven kings; five have fallen, one is on the throne, the other has not yet come, and when he does he must stay but a little while, ¹¹ So it is with the wild beast that once was but is no more; he is the eighth, and yet is one of the seven, and he is going to be destroyed. ¹² The ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet become kings, but for a single hour they accept authority as kings allied with the wild beast. ¹³ They have one common policy. They give their power and authority to the wild beast. ¹⁴ They will make war upon the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, and His chosen, elect, and faithful followers will conquer with Him, too, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings." ¹⁵ He also said to me: "The waters that you saw, on which the prostitute was seated, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages. ¹⁶ The ten horns that you saw and the wild beast will be the very ones to hate the prostitute, to make her desolate and naked, to eat up her flesh, and burn her up with fire. ¹⁷ For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His purpose by giving up their authority to the wild beast until God's words are carried out. ¹⁸ And the woman whom you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth."