MODERN LITERAL VERSION

18:1 After these things, I saw another messenger coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated from his glory.
18:2 And he cried with a great voice, saying, Babylon the great has fallen and it has become a residence of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit and a prison of every unclean and spiteful bird.
18:3 Because out of the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations have fallen, and the kings of the earth fornicated with her and the merchants of the earth were enriched from the power of her promiscuity.

18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, in order that you* might not have fellowship with her sins and in order that you* might not receive out of her wounds,
18:5 because her sins have reached even to heaven and God has remembered her wrongdoing.
18:6 Repay to her as she has also given to you * and you* do this double to her– double again according to her works; in the cup which she mixed, mix to her double again.
18:7 Inasmuch as she glorified herself and was promiscuous, give to her so-much more torment and mourning, because she says in her heart, I am sitting as a queen and I am no widow and may never* see mourning.
18:8 Because of this, in one day her wounds will come– death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, because strong is the Lord God who judged her.
18:9 And the kings of the earth, who fornicated and were promiscuous with her, will weep and grieve over her, whenever they look upon the smoke of her fire,
18:10 standing from afar because of their fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! Because in one hour your judgment has come.
18:11 And the merchants of the earth will weep and will mourn over her, because no one is buying their cargo any more;
18:12 cargo of {F} gold, silver, precious stone, pearl, fine-linen, purple, silk, scarlet, and all citron wood and every vessel of ivory and every vessel made out of the most precious wood and of brass and iron and marble;
18:13 and cinnamon, spice, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, oil, fine-flour, grain, sheep, other animals, and of horses and of chariots and of bodies and souls of men.
18:14 And the autumn-fruits which your soul lusted after have gone away from you and all things which were luxurious and bright have perished from you and you may never* find them anymore.
18:15 The merchants of these things, who were enriched from her, will stand from afar because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning.
18:16 And they are saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine-linen, and purple and scarlet and arrayed in gold, precious stone and pearls!
18:17 Because in an hour so-many riches was made desolate. And every helmsman and everyone who sails any place and sailors and as many as are working from the sea, stood from afar,
18:18 and cried out, seeing the smoke of her fire, saying, What city is similar to the great city?
18:19 And they cast dirt upon their heads and cried, weeping and mourning and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were enriched out of her costliness! Because in one hour she was made desolate.
18:20 O heaven be joyous over her and you * holy-ones and you * apostles and you * prophets, because God has judged your* judgment {F} on her.

18:21 And a strong messenger took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, So Babylon, the great city, will be cast down, with a violent-impulse, and may never* be found anymore.
18:22 And the voice of harpists and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters may never* be heard in you anymore, and no craftsman, of whatever craft, may never* be found in you anymore, and the voice of a mill may never* be heard in you anymore;
18:23 and the light of a lamp may never* appear in you anymore, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride may never* be heard in you anymore. Your merchants were the great-men of the earth, because all the nations were misled with your sorcery.
18:24 And in her, the bloods of prophets and of holy-ones and of all who have been slaughtered upon the earth was found.
{Footnotes: Re 18:12,13- in the list of merchandise ‘and' was removed between many of the words and replaced with a comma. Re 18:20- Greek: out of. Or: from.}