Revelation 11:8
11:8 Their
corpses will lie in the street
of the great city that is symbolically
called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.
Revelation 17:2-5
17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
17:3 So
he carried me away in the Spirit
to a wilderness,
and there
I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
17:4 Now
the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet clothing,
and adorned with gold,
precious stones, and pearls. She held
in her hand a golden cup filled with detestable things and unclean things from her sexual immorality.
17:5 On
her forehead was written a name, a mystery:
“Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.”
Revelation 18:3
18:3 For all the nations have fallen from
the wine of her immoral passion,
and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her,
and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”
Revelation 18:10
18:10 They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,
“Woe, woe, O great city,
Babylon the powerful city!
For in a single hour your doom has come!”
Revelation 18:18
18:18 and began to shout
when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up,
“Who is like the great city?”
Revelation 18:21
18:21 Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,
“With this kind of sudden violent force
Babylon the great city will be thrown down
and it will never be found again!
Revelation 19:2
19:2 because his judgments are true and just.
For he has judged the great prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality,
and has avenged the blood of his servants poured out by her own hands!”
Jeremiah 51:7
51:7 Babylonia had been a gold cup in the Lord’s hand.
She had made the whole world drunk.
The nations had drunk from the wine of her wrath.
So they have all gone mad.
Ezekiel 16:15-22
16:15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty became his.
16:16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.
16:17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them.
16:18 You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.
16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.
16:20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough,
16:21 you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.
16:22 And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood.
Nahum 3:19
3:19 Your destruction is like an incurable wound;
your demise is like a fatal injury!
All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy,
for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!