Revelation 18:5

Bible in Basic English

For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For her sins are piled up to heaven,and God has remembered her crimes.

King James Version (1611)
For her sinnes haue reached vnto heauen, and God hath remembred her iniquities.

King James Version
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

New American Standard Bible
for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her offenses.

New Century Version
Her sins have piled up as high as the sky, and God has not forgotten the wrongs she has done.

English Standard Version
for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Berean Standard Bible
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Contemporary English Version
Her sins are piled as high as heaven. God has remembered the evil she has done.

Complete Jewish Bible
for her sins are a sticky mass piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

Darby Translation
for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.

Easy-to-Read Version
That city's sins are piled up as high as heaven. God has not forgotten the wrongs she has done.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For her sinnes are come vp into heauen, and God hath remembred her iniquities.

George Lamsa Translation
For her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Good News Translation
For her sins are piled up as high as heaven, and God remembers her wicked ways.

Lexham English Bible
because her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

Literal Translation
because her sins joined together, even up to Heaven, and God remembered her unjust deeds.

Amplified Bible
for her sins (crimes, transgressions) have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her wickedness and crimes [for judgment].

American Standard Version
for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Hebrew Names Version
for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

International Standard Version
For her sins are piled as high as heaven,Genesis 18:20-21; Jeremiah 51:9; Jonah 1:2; Revelation 16:19;">[xr] and God has remembered her crimes.

Etheridge Translation
For her sins have reached [fn] unto heaven, and Aloha hath remembered her iniquity.

Murdock Translation
For her sins have reached up to heaven; and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For her sinnes are gone vp to heauen, and God hath remembred her wickednesse.

English Revised Version
for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

World English Bible
for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For her sins have reached even to heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Weymouth's New Testament
For her sins are piled up to the sky, and God has called to mind her unrighteous deeds.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the synnes of it camen `til to heuene, and the Lord hadde mynde of the wickidnesse of it.

Update Bible Version
for her sins have reached even to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Webster's Bible Translation
For her sins have reached to heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

New English Translation
because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

New King James Version
For her sins have reached [fn] to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

New Living Translation
For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God remembers her evil deeds.

New Life Bible
For her sins are as high as heaven. God is ready to punish her for her sins.

New Revised Standard
for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
because her sins were joined together as far as heaven, and God hath remembered her unrighteous deeds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.

Revised Standard Version
for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For her synnes are gon vp to heven and God hath remembred her wyckednes.

Young's Literal Translation
because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For her synnes are gone vp to heauen, and the LORDE hath remembred her wyckednes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembred her iniquities.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Her wrongs are stacked against her all the way to heaven and God will not forget her wicked deeds.

Contextual Overview

¹ After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was bright with his glory. ² And he gave a loud cry, saying, Babylon the great has come down from her high place, she has come to destruction and has become a place of evil spirits, and of every unclean spirit, and a hole for every unclean and hated bird. ³ For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways. ⁴ And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments. ⁵ For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing. ⁶ Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself. ⁷ As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow. ⁸ For this reason in one day will her troubles come, death and sorrow and need of food; and she will be completely burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who is her judge.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

reached: Genesis 18:20, Genesis 18:21, 2 Chronicles 28:9, Ezra 9:6, Jeremiah 51:9, Jonah 1:2

and: Revelation 16:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:1 - God remembered Judges 20:13 - would not Psalms 16:4 - Their Psalms 79:8 - remember Isaiah 1:4 - Ah sinful Isaiah 14:4 - How Isaiah 47:3 - I will take Jeremiah 44:21 - did Jeremiah 51:6 - for this Jeremiah 51:49 - As Babylon Jeremiah 51:56 - the Lord Ezekiel 24:8 - I have set Daniel 4:22 - thy greatness Zechariah 5:2 - the length Acts 2:40 - Save

Cross-References

Genesis 19:8
See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.

Genesis 33:10
And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

Judges 6:18
Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back.

Judges 13:15
And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Now let us keep you while we make ready a young goat for you.

Judges 19:5
Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning and he made ready to go away; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Take a little food to keep up your strength, and then go on your way.

Psalms 104:15
And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

Isaiah 3:1
For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

Matthew 6:11
Give us this day bread for our needs.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For her sins have reached unto heaven,.... Or "have followed unto heaven"; one after another, in one age after another, until they have been as it were heaped up together, and have reached the heavens; the phrase denotes the multitude of them, God's knowledge and notice of them, and the cry of them to him; see

Genesis 18:20 the Alexandrian copy and Complutensian edition read, "have cleaved", or "glued", and so the Syriac and Arabic versions seem to have read; her sins were as it were soldered together, and stuck fast to her, and being joined and linked together, made a long chain, and reached to heaven, and cleaved to that, and cried for vengeance:

and God hath remembered her iniquities; and is about to punish her for them; for as forgiveness of sin is signified by a non-remembrance of it, so punishment of sin by a remembrance of it, and of the persons that commit it; see Revelation 16:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For her sins have reached unto heaven - So in Jeremiah 51:9, speaking of Babylon, it is said, “For her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.” The meaning is not that the sins of this mystical Babylon were like a mass or pile so high as to reach to heaven, but that it had become so prominent as to attract the attention of God. Compare Genesis 4:10, “The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.” See also Genesis 18:20.

And God hath remembered her iniquities - He had seemed to forget them, or not to notice them, but now he acted as if they had come to his recollection. See the notes on Revelation 16:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 18:5. Her sins have reached unto heaven — They are become so great and enormous that the long-suffering of God must give place to his justice.