A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is capt
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the
Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and a
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the
And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own cr
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a
who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into
Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations