Revelation 18:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³^(A) Babylon's evil and immoral wine
    has made all nations drunk.
Every king on earth
    has slept with her,
and every merchant on earth
is rich because of
    her evil desires.”

⁴^(B) Then I heard another voice
    from heaven shout,
“My people, you must escape
    from Babylon.
Don't take part in her sins
    and share her punishment.
⁵^(C) Her sins are piled
    as high as heaven.
God has remembered the evil
    she has done.

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Revelation 18:3-5

New International Version

³For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.^(A)
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,^(B)
and the merchants of the earth grew rich^(C) from her excessive luxuries.”^(D)

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

⁴Then I heard another voice from heaven say:

“‘Come out of her, my people,’^[a]^(E)
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues;^(F)
⁵for her sins are piled up to heaven,^(G)
    and God has remembered^(H) her crimes.