Revelation 18:4-5

The Fall of Babylon

4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
w "Come out of her, my people,
lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;
5 for x her sins are heaped high as heaven,
and y God has remembered her iniquities.

  1. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 6:17
    Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you.
    Isaiah 48:20
    Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, "The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:9
    We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.
    Genesis 18:20 - 21
    Then the Lord said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave.
    Ezra 9:6
    Saying: "O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
    Jonah 1:2
    "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me."
  3. Cross References
    Revelation 16:19
    The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
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