ing, What is
like that great city! (19)And they cast dust upon their heads, and
cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, by
which all who occupied ships on the sea were enriched from her
opulence! how in one hour is she made desolate!

(20)Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye the holy apostles and
prophets, for God hath adjudged her to punishment, for the judgment
inflicted on you by her. (21)And a mighty angel took up a stone as a
great milestone, and cast it into the sea, saying, So with rapidity
shall the great city Babylon be hurled into the deep, and never shall
be found more. (22)And the sound of harpers, and musicians, and flute
players, and trumpeters, shall never be heard in thee more; and no
artificer of whatever trade shall be found in thee any more; and the
sound of a milstone shall be heard in thee no more; (23)and never shall
the light of a lamp shine in thee any more; and the voice of the
bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard in thee no more: because thy
merchants were the grandees of the earth; because all nations were
deluded by thy magical incantation. (24)And in her was found the blood
of prophets, and holy men, and of all who have been slaughtered upon
the earth.

CHAP. XIX.

AND after these things I heard a loud sound as of a vast multitude in
heaven, saying, Hallelujah: Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power
be to the Lord our God: (2)because true and righteous are his
judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, that corrupted the
earth with her whoredom, and hath avenged the blood of his servants
shed by her hand. (3)And the second time they said, Hallelujah. And her
smoke ascended up for ever and ever. (4)And the four and twenty
presbyters fell prostrate, and the four living beings, and they
worshipped God who was seated on the throne, saying, Amen; Hallelujah.

(5)And there came a voice out of the throne, saying, Praise our God,
all ye servants of his, and all that fear him, both the small and the
great. (6)And I heard as it were the voice of a vast multitude, and as
the noise of many waters, and as the roar of mighty thunderings,
saying, Hallelujah: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. (7)Let us
rejoice and exult, and give him glory: because the marriage of the Lamb
is come, and his bride hath made herself ready. (8)And it was granted
her to be clothed in fine linen, clean and splendid: for the fine linen
is _the emblem of_ the righteousness of the s