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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Young's Literal Translation

Revelation 18:5

because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.

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.
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.
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 And after these things I saw another messenger coming down out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his glory, 2 and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, `Fall, fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird, 3 because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich. 4 And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues, 5 because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness. 6 Render to her as also she did render to you, and double to her doubles according to her works; in the cup that she did mingle mingle to her double. 7 `As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see; 8 because of this, in one day, shall come her plagues, death, and sorrow, and famine; and in fire she shall be utterly burned, because strong [is] the Lord God who is judging her;

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
lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as [is] good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'
Genesis 33:10
And Jacob saith, `Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, then thou hast received my present from my hand, because that I have seen thy face, as the seeing of the face of God, and thou art pleased with me;
Judges 6:18
Move not, I pray Thee, from this, till my coming in unto Thee, and I have brought out my present, and put it before Thee;' and he saith, `I -- I do abide till thy return.'
Judges 13:15
And Manoah saith unto the messenger of Jehovah, `Let us detain thee, we pray thee, and prepare before thee a kid of the goats.'
Judges 19:5
And it cometh to pass, on the fourth day, that they rise early in the morning, and he riseth to go, and the father of the young woman saith unto his son-in-law, `Support thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye go on.'
Psalms 104:15
And wine -- it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread -- the heart of man it supporteth.
Isaiah 3:1
For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water.
Matthew 6:11
`Our appointed bread give us to-day.

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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