Nahum 3:4
4And all for the countless whorings of the aprostitute,bgraceful and of deadly charms,
who betrays nations with her whorings,
and peoples with her charms.
Revelation of John 17:2-5
2 cwith whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and dwith the wine of whose sexual immorality ethe dwellers on earth have become drunk.” 3And fhe carried me away in the Spirit ginto a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on ha scarlet beast that was full of iblasphemous names, and jit had seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman kwas arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned lwith gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand ma golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5And on her forehead was written a name of nmystery: o“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”Revelation of John 18:9-14
9And pthe kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, qwill weep and wail over her rwhen they see the smoke of her burning. 10 sThey will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say,“Alas! Alas! tYou great city,
you mighty city, Babylon!
For uin a single hour your judgment has come.”
11And vthe merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore, 12cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble, 13cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls. ▼
▼Or and slaves, and human lives
14 “The fruit for which your soul longed
has gone from you,
and all your delicacies and your splendors
are lost to you,
never to be found again!”
Revelation of John 19:2
2for xhis judgments are true and just;for he has judged ythe great prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and zhas avenged on her the blood of his servants.” ▼
▼Greek bondservants; also verse 5
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