Revelation 18:20 Parallel Translations

"Gloat over it, heaven, God's people, apostles, and prophets. God has condemned it for you."(GOD'S WORD®)

Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her.

BBE:

Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.

DBY:

Rejoice over her, heaven, and ye saints and apostles and prophets; for God has judged your judgment upon her.

ERV:

Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets; for God hath judged your judgment on her.

WEY:

Rejoice over her, O Heaven, and you saints and Apostles and Prophets; for God has taken vengeance upon her because of you."

WBS:

Rejoice over her thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

WEB:

"Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."

YLT:

'Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'

Revelation 18:20 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 51:48 "Then heaven and earth and all that is in them Will shout for joy over Babylon, For the destroyers will come to her from the north," Declares the LORD.

Luke 11:49 "For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute,

Revelation 6:10 and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

Revelation 12:12 "For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time."

Revelation 18:6 "Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.

Revelation 19:2 BECAUSE HIS JUDGMENTS ARE TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and HE HAS AVENGED THE BLOOD OF HIS BOND-SERVANTS ON HER." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

18:20 Rejoice over her, {12} [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
(12) The other consequence on the ruin of Babylon, is the exultation or rejoicing of the godly in heaven and in earth as was noted in this verse.

PNT:

18:20 Rejoice over her, [thou] heaven, and [ye] holy apostles and prophets. While there are mourners, another company is called upon to rejoice. She had exalted herself against God. All who have been for God, and who have suffered from her, are called to rejoice.

WES:

18:20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven - That is, all the inhabitants of it; and more especially, ye saints; and among the saints still more eminently, ye apostles and prophets.

MHC:

18:20-24 That which is matter of rejoicing to the servants of God on earth, is matter of rejoicing to the angels in heaven. The apostles, who are honoured and daily worshipped at Rome in an idolatrous manner, will rejoice in her fall. The fall of Babylon was an act of God's justice. And because it was a final ruin, this enemy should never molest them any more; of this they were assured by a sign. Let us take warning from the things which brought others to destruction, and let us set our affections on things above, when we consider the changeable nature of earthly things.

CONC:

Account Apostles Avenged Glad Heaven Holy Judge Judged Judgment O Pronounced Prophets Rejoice Saints Treated Vengeance

Apostles Avenged Glad Heaven Holy Judge Judged Judgment Pronounced Prophets Rejoice Saints Treated Vengeance Way

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