Revelation 18:21
Greek Text— Revelation 18:21A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, “Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
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For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.
They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.
The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.
When the wicked increase, sin increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.
Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.
Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
Yahweh of Armies says: “The wide walls of Babylon will be utterly overthrown. Her high gates will be burned with fire. The peoples will labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they will be weary.”
It will be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the middle of the Euphrates.
I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.
The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more.” ’ ”
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
let briers grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
He said, “You shall rejoice no more, you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even there you will have no rest.”
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens will vanish away like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants will die in the same way, but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be abolished.
“Don’t let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. In the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.
As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.
Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”
The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”
Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.
Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.
and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’
The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.
He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
Then you shall say, ‘Thus will Babylon sink, and will not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they will be weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.
I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the book, and to break its seals?”
One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.
He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
though hail flattens the forest, and the city is leveled completely.
Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.
I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
“Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.” ’ ”
“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Behold, it has not been bound up, to apply medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it become strong to hold the sword.
Then he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he will stumble and fall, and won’t be found.
I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.
They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.
The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!
standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’
The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.