21. Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said:‘With such violencethe great city of Babylon will be thrown down,never to be found again.
22. The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,will never be heard in you again.No worker of any tradewill ever be found in you again.The sound of a millstonewill never be heard in you again.
23. The light of a lampwill never shine in you again.The voice of bridegroom and bridewill never be heard in you again.Your merchants were the world’s important people.By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
24. In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people,of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.’