Revelation

⁵because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes. ⁶Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her. ⁷As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’ ⁸For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!” ⁹Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up. ¹⁰They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,“Woe, woe, O great city,Babylon the powerful city!For in a single hour your doom has come!” ¹¹Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer –