Revelation 18:6
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.
5 For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
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.’
8 Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- Render unto her even as she rendered, and double [unto her] the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto her double.
- DARBY
- Recompense her even as she has recompensed; and double [to her] double, according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix to her double.
- BLB
- Render to her as she also rendered; and double to [her] double according to her works. In the cup that she mixed, mix double to her.
- ÅB
- Gi henne igjen som hun har gitt, og gjengjeld henne dobbelt etter hennes gjerninger! Skjenk henne dobbelt i det beger hun har iskjenket!
- OTB
- Gjengjeld henne som hun har gjengjeldt;
betal henne dobbelt i henhold til hennes gjerninger.
I det begeret hun har blandet, bland for henne en dobbel porsjon. - B1930
- Gi henne igjen som hun har gitt, og gjengjeld henne dobbelt efter hennes gjerninger! Skjenk henne dobbelt i det beger hun har iskjenket!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 50:29
Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Read in contextPsalms 137:8
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
Read in contextJeremiah 51:24
Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
Read in contextJeremiah 50:15
Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
Read in contextRevelation 14:10
he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
Read in contextRevelation 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.
Read in contextZechariah 9:12
Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.
Read in contextJeremiah 16:18
And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
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