Jer 51:7, Eze 16:15-22, Rev 11:8, 17:2-5, 18:3, 10, 18, 21, 19:2 | ESV | STEP | Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand , making all the earth drunken ; the nations drank of her wine ; therefore the nations went mad .

15 ^d“But you trusted in your beauty ^eand played the whore ^{▼▼Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28} because of your renown ^gand lavished your whorings ^{▼▼Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36} on any passerby; your beauty ^{▼▼Hebrew it} became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. ^{▼▼The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain} 17 You also took ^kyour beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and ^lmade for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, ^mand set my oil and my incense before them. 19 ⁿAlso my bread that I gave you— ^oI fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for ^pa pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. 20 ^qAnd you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and ^rthese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember ^sthe days of your youth, ^twhen you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

Revelation of John 11:8

8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically ^{▼▼Greek spiritually} is called ^vSodom and ^wEgypt, where their Lord was crucified.

Revelation of John 17:2-5

2 ^xwith whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and ^ywith the wine of whose sexual immorality ^zthe dwellers on earth have become drunk.” 3 And ^aahe carried me away in the Spirit ^abinto a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on ^aca scarlet beast that was full of ^adblasphemous names, and ^aeit had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman ^afwas arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned ^agwith gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand ^aha golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of ^aimystery: ^aj“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”

Revelation of John 18:3

3 For all nations have drunk ^{▼▼Some manuscripts fallen by}
^althe wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and ^amthe kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and ^anthe merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”

Revelation of John 18:10

10 ^aoThey will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,

“Alas! Alas! ^apYou great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For ^aqin a single hour your judgment has come.”

Revelation of John 18:18

18 and ^arcried out ^asas they saw the smoke of her burning,

^at“What city was like the great city?”

Revelation of John 18:21

21 Then ^aua mighty angel ^avtook up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying,

“So will Babylon ^awthe great city be thrown down with violence,
and will be found no more;

Revelation of John 19:2

2 for ^axhis judgments are true and just;
for he has judged ^aythe great prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and ^azhas avenged on her the blood of his servants.” ^{▼▼Greek bondservants; also verse 5}