5. Her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
6. Do to her what she has done. Give her twice as much as she gave. Serve her a drink in her own cup twice as large as the drink she served others.
7. She gave herself glory and luxury. Now give her just as much torture and misery. She says to herself, ‘I’m a queen on a throne, not a widow. I’ll never be miserable.’
8. For this reason her plagues of death, misery, and starvation will come in a single day. She will be burned up in a fire, because the Lord God, who judges her, is powerful.
9. “The kings of the earth who had sex with her and lived in luxury with her will cry and mourn over her when they see the smoke rise from her raging fire.
10. Frightened by her torture, they will stand far away and say,‘How horrible, how horrible it is for that important city,the powerful city Babylon!In one moment judgment has come to it!’
11. “The merchants of the earth cry and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo anymore.