51:6 Get out of Babylonia quickly, you foreign people. 1
Flee to save your lives.
Do not let yourselves be killed because of her sins.
For it is time for the Lord to wreak his revenge.
He will pay Babylonia 2 back for what she has done. 3
51:9 Foreigners living there will say, 4
‘We tried to heal her, but she could not be healed.
Let’s leave Babylonia 5 and each go back to his own country.
For judgment on her will be vast in its proportions.
It will be like it is piled up to heaven, stacked up into the clouds.’ 6
51:50 You who have escaped the sword, 7
go, do not delay. 8
Remember the Lord in a faraway land.
Think about Jerusalem. 9
50:8 “People of Judah, 10 get out of Babylon quickly!
Leave the land of Babylonia! 11
Be the first to depart! 12
Be like the male goats that lead the herd.
48:20 Leave Babylon!
Flee from the Babylonians!
Announce it with a shout of joy!
Make this known!
Proclaim it throughout the earth! 13
Say, ‘The Lord protects 14 his servant Jacob.
14:8 A 16 second 17 angel 18 followed the first, 19 declaring: 20 “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great city! 21 She made all the nations 22 drink of the wine of her immoral passion.” 23
14:9 A 24 third angel 25 followed the first two, 26 declaring 27 in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and takes the mark on his forehead or his hand, 14:10 that person 28 will also drink of the wine of God’s anger 29 that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur 30 in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb. 14:11 And the smoke from their 31 torture will go up 32 forever and ever, and those who worship the beast and his image will have 33 no rest day or night, along with 34 anyone who receives the mark of his name.”
18:4 Then 35 I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,