Revelation 18:18 Parallel Translations

When they saw the smoke rise from her raging fire, they repeatedly cried out, 'Was there ever a city as important as this?'(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!

ASV:

and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like the great city?

BBE:

And crying out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What town is like the great town?

DBY:

and cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like to the great city?

ERV:

and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like the great city?

WEY:

stood afar off, and cried aloud when they saw the smoke of her burning. And they said, 'What city is like this great city?'

WBS:

And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like this great city!

WEB:

and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying,'What is like the great city?'

YLT:

and were crying, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like to the great city?

Revelation 18:18 Cross References

XREF:

Ezekiel 27:30 And they will make their voice heard over you And will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads, They will wallow in ashes.

Ezekiel 27:32 "Moreover, in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you And lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, Like her who is silent in the midst of the sea?

Revelation 13:4 they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?"

Revelation 18:9 "And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning,

Revelation 18:10 standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come.' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

18:15-19 The merchants of these things... shall stand afar off. The lamentation of the kings over the fall of the city has been given in Re 18:9-14. The lamentation of the merchants is now given. They are also represented as standing afar off. With them join the shipmasters and mariners who have been engaged in her trade. These all mourn because their profits from her are brought to an end.

MHC:

18:9-19 The mourners had shared Babylon's sensual pleasures, and gained by her wealth and trade. The kings of the earth, whom she flattered into idolatry, allowing them to be tyrannical over their subjects, while obedient to her; and the merchants, those who trafficked for her indulgences, pardons, and honours; these mourn. Babylon's friends partook her sinful pleasures and profits, but are not willing to share her plagues. The spirit of antichrist is a worldly spirit, and that sorrow is a mere worldly sorrow; they do not lament for the anger of God, but for the loss of outward comforts. The magnificence and riches of the ungodly will avail them nothing, but will render the vengeance harder to be borne. The spiritual merchandise is here alluded to, when not only slaves, but the souls of men, are mentioned as articles of commerce, to the destroying the souls of millions. Nor has this been peculiar to the Roman antichrist, and only her guilt. But let prosperous traders learn, with all their gains, to get the unsearchable riches of Christ; otherwise; even in this life, they may have to mourn that riches make to themselves wings and fly away, and that all the fruits their souls lusted after, are departed from them. Death, at any rate, will soon end their commerce, and all the riches of the ungodly will be exchanged, not only for the coffin and the worm, but for the fire that cannot be quenched.

CONC:

Afar Aloud Burning Cried Crying Exclaim Saying Seeing Smoke Stood Town

Afar Aloud Burning City Cried Crying Exclaim Great Smoke Stood

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