2And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
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And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. …
So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The downfall and destruction of Babylon form an event so fully determined in the counsels of God, and of such consequence to his interests and glory, that the visions and predictions concerning it are repeated. 1. Here is another angel sent from heaven, attended with great power and lustre, Rev. 18:1. He had not only light in himself, to discern the truth of his own prediction, but to inform and e…
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