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The people in heaven praise God

19 After these things, I heard a sound like the voices of a great crowd of people in heaven. They were shouting,

    ‘Praise the Lord our God!
    He has saved us!
    He is very powerful!
    We say that he is great!
Everything that he decides is right and fair.
    He has punished that great prostitute.
    She led people on the earth to do wicked things.
    She murdered God's servants with her own hands.
    But now God has punished her as she deserves.’[a]

Then the crowd of people in heaven shouted again,

‘Praise the Lord our God!
The smoke from the fire that burns that city will go up for ever.’

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Footnotes

  1. 19:2 Babylon and other wicked cities are like a prostitute. They cause people to turn away from God, so that they are not faithful to him.

Threefold Hallelujah Over Babylon’s Fall

19 After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude(A) in heaven shouting:

“Hallelujah!(B)
Salvation(C) and glory and power(D) belong to our God,
    for true and just are his judgments.(E)
He has condemned the great prostitute(F)
    who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”(G)

And again they shouted:

“Hallelujah!(H)
The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”(I)

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