Revelation 18:19 · Clearspring

Your notes

Private to you. Anything you write on this verse, here or while reading, shows up here and in My study.

Other translations

WEBBE

They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.

BSB

Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been destroyed.”

KJV

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

ASV

And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

BBE

And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, in which was increased the wealth of all who had their ships on the sea because of her great stores! for in one hour she is made waste.

Original Greek

Look up a word

Tap a word to see what it means and everywhere else it's used.

καὶ kai And G2532 ἔβαλον ebalon they cast G906 χοῦν choun dust G5522 ἐπὶ epi upon G1909 τὰς tas the G3588 κεφαλὰς kephalas heads G2776 αὐτῶν autōn of them G846 καὶ kai and G2532 ἔκραζον ekrazon they were crying out G2896 κλαίοντες klaiontes weeping G2799 καὶ kai and G2532 πενθοῦντες penthountes mourning G3996 καὶ kai and G2532 λέγοντες legontes saying G3004 οὐαὶ ouai Woe G3759 οὐαὶ ouai woe G3759 ἡ hē the G3588 πόλις polis city G4172 ἡ hē (the) G3588 μεγάλη megalē great G3173 ἐν en in G1722 ᾗ hē which G3739 ἐπλούτησαν eploutēsan were enriched G4147 πάντες pantes all G3956 οἱ hoi those G3588 ἔχοντες echontes having G2192 τὰ ta (the) G3588 πλοῖα ploia ships G4143 ἐν en in G1722 τῇ tēa the G3588 θαλάσσῃ thalassē sea G2281 ἐκ ek through G1537 τῆς tēs the G3588 τιμιότητος timiotētos wealth G5094 αὐτῆς autēs of her G846 ὅτι hoti Since G3754 μιᾷ mia in one G1520 ὥρᾳ hōra hour G5610 ἠρημώθη ērēmōthē she has been desolated G2049

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

Read Matthew Henry on Revelation 18 →

Cross-references

11

Topics

Commerce