18. They saw the smoke from her burning. They said loudly, “There was never a city like this great city!”
19. They threw dust on their heads and cried to show how sad they were. They said:“Terrible! How terrible for the great city!All the people who had ships on the seabecame rich because of her wealth!But she has been destroyed in one hour!
20. Be happy because of this, heaven!Be happy, God’s holy people and apostles and prophets!God has punished her because of what she did to you.”
21. Then a powerful angel picked up a stone like a large stone for grinding grain. The angel threw the stone into the sea and said:“That is how the great city of Babylon will be thrown down.The city will never be found again.
22. The music of people playing harps and other instruments, flutes and trumpets,will never be heard in you again.No workman doing any jobwill ever be found in you again.The sound of grinding grainwill never be heard in you again.
23. The light of a lampwill never shine in you again.The voices of a bridegroom and bridewill never be heard in you again.Your businessmen were the world’s great men.All the nations were tricked by your magic.
24. She is guilty of the deathof the prophets and God’s holy peopleand of all who have been killed on earth.”