18:1 After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance. ¹  18:2 He ²  shouted with a powerful voice:

“Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great!

She ³  has become a lair for demons,

a haunt ⁴  for every unclean spirit,

a haunt for every unclean bird,

a haunt for every unclean and detested beast. ⁵ 

18:3 For all the nations ⁶  have fallen ⁷  from

the wine of her immoral passion, ⁸ 

and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her,

and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.” ⁹ 

18:4 Then ¹⁰  I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues, 18:5 because her sins have piled ¹¹  up all the way to heaven ¹²  and God has remembered ¹³  her crimes. ¹⁴  18:6 Repay her the same way she repaid others; ¹⁵  pay her back double ¹⁶  corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her. 18:7 As much as ¹⁷  she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, ¹⁸  to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, ¹⁹  ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’ 18:8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues ²⁰  in a single day: disease, ²¹  mourning, ²²  and famine, and she will be burned down ²³  with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”

18:9 Then ²⁴  the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury ²⁵  with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up. ²⁶  18:10 They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,

“Woe, woe, O great city,

Babylon the powerful city!

For in a single hour your doom ²⁷  has come!”