because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

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.”

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds.

The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

Then a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars.

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.

Then the kings of the earth who committed immoral acts with her and lived in sensual luxury with her will weep and wail for her when they see the smoke from the fire that burns her up.

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!”

Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles (its length and width and height are equal).

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

and began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, “Who is like the great city?”

Then a second time the crowd shouted, “Hallelujah!” The smoke rises from her forever and ever.

The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.

The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).

and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”