The Doom of Babylon

Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast [it] into the sea, saying:

“With such violence[fn]

the great city of Babylon will be cast down,

vvv vvv never to be [seen] again.

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And [the] sound of harpists and musicians,

of flute players and trumpeters,

vvv vvv will never ring out in you again.

[Nor will] any craftsmen of any trade vvv vvv

be [found] in you again,

[nor] [the] sound of a millstone vvv vvv

be heard in you again.

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[The] light of a lamp

vvv vvv will never shine in you again,

and [the] voices of a bride and bridegroom

vvv vvv will never call out in you again.

For your merchants were the great ones of the earth,

because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”

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And there was found in her [the] blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth. 19