Text -- Revelation 18:8 (NET)

18:8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rev 18:8

¹ tn Grk “For this reason, her plagues will come.”

² tn Grk “death.” θάνατος (qanatos) can in particular contexts refer to a manner of death, specifically a contagious disease (see BDAG 443 s.v. 3; L&N 23.158).

³ tn This is the same Greek word (πένθος, penqo") translated “grief” in vv. 7-8.

⁴ tn Here “burned down” was used to translate κατακαυθήσεται (katakauqhsetai) because a city is in view.