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Contemporary English Version

Revelation 18:5

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Judges;   Partaking;   Plague;   Rendering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Poetry of the Hebrews;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - City;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Antichrist;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Babylon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Debt, Debtor;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon the Great ;   Zechariah, Prophecy of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Babel;   Babylon;  

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.
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 I saw another angel come from heaven. This one had great power, and the earth was bright because of his glory. 2 The angel shouted, "Fallen! Powerful Babylon has fallen and is now the home of demons. It is the den of every filthy spirit and of all unclean birds, and every dirty and hated animal. 3 Babylon's evil and immoral wine has made all nations drunk. Every king on earth has slept with her, and every merchant on earth is rich because of her evil desires." 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven shout, "My people, you must escape from Babylon. Don't take part in her sins and share her punishment. 5 Her sins are piled as high as heaven. God has remembered the evil she has done. 6 Treat her as she has treated others. Make her pay double for what she has done. Make her drink twice as much of what she mixed for others. 7 That woman honored herself with a life of luxury. Reward her now with suffering and pain. "Deep in her heart Babylon said, ‘I am the queen! Never will I be a widow or know what it means to be sad.' 8 And so, in a single day she will suffer the pain of sorrow, hunger, and death. Fire will destroy her dead body, because her judge is the powerful Lord God."

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
I have two daughters who have never been married. I'll bring them out, and you can do what you want with them. But don't harm these men. They are guests in my home."
Genesis 33:10
"No!" Jacob said. "Please accept these gifts as a sign of your friendship for me. When you welcomed me and I saw your face, it was like seeing the face of God.
Judges 6:18
And wait here until I bring you an offering." "All right, I'll wait," the Lord answered.
Judges 13:15
"Please," Manoah said, "stay here with us for just a little while, and we'll fix a young goat for you to eat."
Judges 19:5
When everyone got up on the fourth day, the Levite started getting ready to go home. But his father-in-law said, "Don't leave until you have a bite to eat. You'll need strength for your journey."
Psalms 104:15
wine to cheer us up, olive oil for our skin, and grain for our health.
Isaiah 3:1
The mighty Lord All-Powerful is going to take away from Jerusalem and Judah everything you need— your bread and water,
Matthew 6:11
Give us our food for today.

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.


 
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