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Babylon Is Fallen

Revelation 18:5

In 9 translations

BSB
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
KJV
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
WEB
for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
ASV
for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
LSV
because her sins have reached up to Heaven, and God remembered her unrighteousness.
YLT
because her sins did follow — unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.
DBY
for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.Elohim
DRC
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.
GNV
For her sinnes are come vp into heauen, and God hath remembred her iniquities.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text read ἐκολλήθησαν (“they were heaped”); Textus Receptus read ἠκολούθησαν (“they reached”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ὅτι ἐκολλήθησαν αὐτῆς αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἄχρι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἐμνημόνευσεν ὁ θεὸς τὰ ἀδικήματα αὐτῆς.
RP2018
ὅτι ἐκολλήθησαν αὐτῆς αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἄχρι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἐμνημόνευσεν ὁ θεὸς τὰ ἀδικήματα αὐτῆς.
TR-Boyd
ὅτι ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῆς αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἄχρι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἐμνημόνευσεν ὁ Θεὸς τὰ ἀδικήματα αὐτῆς.ἠκολούθησαν ¦ ἐκολλήθησαν SCR
SCR1894
οτι εκολληθησαν αυτης αι αμαρτιαι αχρι του ουρανου και εμνημονευσεν ο θεος τα αδικηματα αυτης

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  • Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
  • Genesis 18:20–21Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous, I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
  • Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.
  • Jeremiah 51:9“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
  • Jonah 1:2“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
  • 2 Chronicles 28:9But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered…

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