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The angel shouted with a powerful voice,

“She is destroyed!
    The great city of Babylon is destroyed!
She has become a home for demons.
    That city has become a place for every unclean spirit to live.
She is a city filled with all kinds of unclean birds.
    She is a place where every unclean and hated animal lives.
All the peoples of the earth have drunk the wine
    of her sexual sin and of God’s anger.
The rulers of the earth sinned sexually with her,
    and the merchants of the world grew rich from the great wealth of her luxury.”

Then I heard another voice from heaven say,

“Come out of that city, my people,
    so that you will not share in her sins.
    Then you will not suffer any of the terrible punishment she will get.

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With a mighty voice he shouted:

“‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!’[a](A)
    She has become a dwelling for demons
and a haunt for every impure spirit,(B)
    a haunt for every unclean bird,
    a haunt for every unclean and detestable animal.(C)
For all the nations have drunk
    the maddening wine of her adulteries.(D)
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,(E)
    and the merchants of the earth grew rich(F) from her excessive luxuries.”(G)

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“‘Come out of her, my people,’[b](H)
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 18:2 Isaiah 21:9
  2. Revelation 18:4 Jer. 51:45