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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Revelation 18:5

for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

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.
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.
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 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illumined with his glory. 2 And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 "For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality." 4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; 5 for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.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. 7 "To the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to the same degree give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, 'I SIT as A QUEEN AND I AM NOT A WIDOW, and will never see mourning.' 8 "For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.

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
"Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof."
Genesis 33:10
Jacob said, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
Judges 6:18
"Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You." And He said, "I will remain until you return."
Judges 13:15
Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "Please let us detain you so that we may prepare a young goat for you."
Judges 19:5
Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and he prepared to go; and the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Sustain yourself with a piece of bread, and afterward you may go."
Psalms 104:15
And wine which makes man's heart glad, So that he may make his face glisten with oil, And food which sustains man's heart.
Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread And the whole supply of water;
Matthew 6:11
'Give us this day our daily bread.

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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