4. Then I heard another voicefrom heaven shout,“My people, you must escapefrom Babylon.Don't take part in her sinsand share her punishment.
5. Her sins are piledas high as heaven.God has remembered the evilshe has done.
6. Treat her as shehas treated others.Make her pay doublefor what she has done.Make her drink twice as muchof what she mixedfor others.
7. That woman honoured herselfwith a life of luxury.Reward her nowwith suffering and pain.“Deep in her heartBabylon said,‘I am the queen!Never will I be a widowor know what it meansto be sad.’
8. And so, in a single dayshe will suffer the painof sorrow, hunger, and death.Fire will destroyher dead body,because her judgeis the powerful Lord God.”