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Revelation 18:5

Judgment

3 All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.

For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

6 Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.

7 As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’

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BSB
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
KJV
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
WEB
for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
ASV
for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
DARBY
for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.
BLB
For her sins were heaped up to heaven, and God remembered her unrighteousnesses.
ÅB
For hennes synder når like til himmelen, og Gud har kommet hennes urettferdige gjerninger i hu.
OTB
for hennes synder har hopet seg opp til himmelen,
og Gud har husket hennes misgjerninger.
B1930
For hennes synder når like til himmelen, og Gud har kommet hennes urettferdige gjerninger i hu.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Genesis 18:20–21

    Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

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  • Ezra 9:6

    and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

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  • Revelation 16:19

    The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

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  • Jeremiah 51:9

    “We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”

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  • Jonah 1:2

    “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”

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  • 2 Chronicles 28:9

    But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

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