Revelation draws imagery from other places in the Bible. Comparing texts helps us understand. There are connections in chapters other than those compared here. Of course, similarity between verses does not always imply similar meanings. |
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Revelation draws imagery from other places in the Bible. Comparing texts helps us understand. There are connections in chapters other than those compared here. Of course, similarity between verses does not always imply similar meanings. |
| Ezekiel 26 to 28 | Revelation 17 and 18 |
| I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard 2613 | The voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee 1822 |
| The princes of the sea 2616.
Inhabited of seafaring men 2617. Thy mariners, and thy pilots 2617. All that handle the oar, the mariners and all the pilots of the sea 2729. |
Every shipmaster, and all
the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea 1817
All that had ships in the sea 1819. Thy merchants were the great men of the earth 1823. |
| They shall take up a lamentation
for thee 2617.
Cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly 2730 They shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee 2731f. The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee 2736. |
The merchants of the earth
shall weep and mourn over her 1811.
The kings of the earth ... shall bewail her, and lament for her 1809 and verses following to 19. |
| How art thou destroyed 2617. | In one hour is she made desolate 1819. Cf 1810. |
| The renowned city 2617. | That great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth 1718. |
| I shall bring up the deep
upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee 2619.
Thou shall be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters 2734. Cf. 2726f. |
A great millstone ... cast ... into the sea. ... Thus ... shall that great city Babylon be thrown down 1821. |
| Thou shall be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again 2621, 2736. | Found no more at all 1821. |
| A merchant of the people 2703
The merchants among the people 2736. |
The merchants ... wee made rich
by her 1815.
Thy merchants were the great men of the earth 1823. |
| Thy merchandise 2727. | The merchandise 1812. |
| Cast up dust upon their heads ... wallow themselves in the ashes 2730. | Thy cast dust on their heads 1819. |
| What city is like Tyrus? 2732. | What city is like unto this great city! 1818, Cf. vs.10,19 |
| Thou didst enrich the kings
2733
Kings shall be sore afraid 2735. |
The kings of the earth 1809
The merchants which were made rich by her 1815. |
| Thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches 2805. | She hath glorified
herself and lived deliciously 1807.
So great riches 1817. Cf vs. 14, 15, 19. |
| I will bring strangers upon thee. the terrible of the nations. 2807 | He gathered them together
into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon 1616.
In righteousness he doth judge and make war 1911. Cf. 1714, 1915,19. |
| Therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee. it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth 2818. | Burn her with fire 1716.
She shall be utterly burned with fire 1808. The smoke of her burning 1809. |
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