Pahayag 18:10

Filipino Cebuano Bible

10 ug sila managtindog nga magapaantaw, sa kalisang sa iyang pag-antus, ug magaingon, Alaut! alaut! ikaw nga bantugang siyudad, ikaw nga gamhanang siyudad, O Babilonia! Sulod sa usa lamang ka takna nahiabut ang hukom batok kanimo."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

afar: Numbers 16:34

Alas: Revelation 18:16, Revelation 18:19, Jeremiah 30:7, Joel 1:15, Amos 5:16

that great: Revelation 14:8, Isaiah 21:9

for: Revelation 18:8, Revelation 18:17, Revelation 18:19, Jeremiah 51:8, Jeremiah 51:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 5:1 - heard 2 Samuel 10:19 - feared 2 Kings 6:5 - master Job 6:21 - ye see Job 34:26 - in Psalms 64:8 - all that Psalms 73:19 - How Isaiah 9:14 - in one day Isaiah 13:6 - Howl ye Isaiah 13:14 - they shall Isaiah 47:11 - thou shalt not be Jeremiah 48:39 - How is it Jeremiah 49:21 - earth Jeremiah 49:25 - General Jeremiah 50:27 - their day Jeremiah 51:25 - and will Jeremiah 51:30 - The mighty Jeremiah 51:41 - the praise Ezekiel 6:11 - Alas Ezekiel 26:17 - How art Ezekiel 27:35 - their kings Ezekiel 28:19 - they Ezekiel 30:2 - Howl Ezekiel 30:4 - pain Ezekiel 32:9 - vex Ezekiel 32:10 - and they Daniel 4:30 - great Obadiah 1:5 - how Micah 7:17 - they shall be Nahum 3:7 - that all Zephaniah 2:15 - how is Revelation 11:8 - the great Revelation 14:7 - hour Revelation 16:19 - the great Revelation 17:5 - Babylon Revelation 18:2 - Babylon Revelation 18:18 - What Revelation 19:2 - judged

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment,.... Lest they themselves should share in it, who have partook of her sins; either they will not be in a capacity to help her, or they will be dispirited, and will be in awe and dread of God's righteous judgments:

saying, alas! alas! that great city Babylon! that mighty city! it will aggravate their sorrow, when they reflect upon the former grandeur, magnificence, power, and authority, of the city and see of Rome, so often called in this book the great city; and so it is by other writers; the Jews call it so: they say c, when the Messiah comes,

"the kings of the world shall be gathered to קרתא רבתא, "the great city" of Rome; and the holy blessed God will cast upon them fire and hail, and great hail stones, (with which compare Revelation 16:21), and they shall perish from the world, except those kings that do not come there.''

It is common with the Jewish writers to call the Roman empire Edom; and Magdiel, one of the dukes of Edom, Genesis 36:43 who has his name from "greatness", is interpreted by one of their commentators d of Rome; the reason of which, another of them says e, is because Rome is become great above all kingdoms: the mount of Esau in Obadiah 1:21 is interpreted ית כרכא רבא, "that great city" of Esau, which is Rome f, and the same epithet it has in the Talmud g; and Porphyry calls it την μεγαλην πολιν, "that great city", without making mention of its name, as here; so among the Latins h, "Magnoe spes altera" Romae:

for in one hour is thy judgment come: the Ethiopic version reads, "the hour of her judgment"; the time of her punishment fixed by God; but the sense is, that her vengeance was suddenly come upon her; this is the judgment of the great whore, which the angel proposed to show to John, Revelation 17:1.

c Zohar in Gen. fol. 74. 3. d Jarchi in Gen. xxxvi. 43. e Abarbinel in Dan. fol. 42. 3. f Jarchi in Obadiah, ver. 21. g T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 21. 2. h Servius in Virgil, Eclog. 6. p. 67.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment - Not daring to approach, to attempt to rescue and save her. They who had so long contributed to the support of the papal power, and who had, in turn, been upheld by that, would not now even attempt to rescue her, but would stand by and see her destroyed, unable to render relief.

Alas, alas, that great city Babylon - The language of lamentation that so great and so mighty a city should fall.

For in one hour is thy judgment come - See the notes on Revelation 18:8. The general sentiment here is, that, in the final ruin of papal Rome, the kings and governments that had sustained her, and had been sustained by her, would see the source of their power taken away, but that they would not, or could not attempt her rescue. There have been not a few indications already that this will ultimately occur, and that the papal power will be left to fall, without any attempt, on the part of those governments which have been so long in alliance with it, to sustain or restore it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 18:10. Standing afar off — Beholding her desolations with wonder and astonishment, utterly unable to afford her any kind of assistance.