Revelation 18:5

New Life Version

For her sins are as high as heaven. God is ready to punish her for her sins.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For her sins are piled up to heaven,and God has remembered her crimes.

King James Version (1611)
For her sinnes haue reached vnto heauen, and God hath remembred her iniquities.

King James Version
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

New American Standard Bible
for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her offenses.

New Century Version
Her sins have piled up as high as the sky, and God has not forgotten the wrongs she has done.

English Standard Version
for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Berean Standard Bible
For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Contemporary English Version
Her sins are piled as high as heaven. God has remembered the evil she has done.

Complete Jewish Bible
for her sins are a sticky mass piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

Darby Translation
for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.

Easy-to-Read Version
That city's sins are piled up as high as heaven. God has not forgotten the wrongs she has done.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For her sinnes are come vp into heauen, and God hath remembred her iniquities.

George Lamsa Translation
For her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Good News Translation
For her sins are piled up as high as heaven, and God remembers her wicked ways.

Lexham English Bible
because her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

Literal Translation
because her sins joined together, even up to Heaven, and God remembered her unjust deeds.

Amplified Bible
for her sins (crimes, transgressions) have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her wickedness and crimes [for judgment].

American Standard Version
for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Bible in Basic English
For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.

Hebrew Names Version
for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

International Standard Version
For her sins are piled as high as heaven,Genesis 18:20-21; Jeremiah 51:9; Jonah 1:2; Revelation 16:19;">[xr] and God has remembered her crimes.

Etheridge Translation
For her sins have reached [fn] unto heaven, and Aloha hath remembered her iniquity.

Murdock Translation
For her sins have reached up to heaven; and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For her sinnes are gone vp to heauen, and God hath remembred her wickednesse.

English Revised Version
for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

World English Bible
for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For her sins have reached even to heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

Weymouth's New Testament
For her sins are piled up to the sky, and God has called to mind her unrighteous deeds.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the synnes of it camen `til to heuene, and the Lord hadde mynde of the wickidnesse of it.

Update Bible Version
for her sins have reached even to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Webster's Bible Translation
For her sins have reached to heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

New English Translation
because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

New King James Version
For her sins have reached [fn] to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

New Living Translation
For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God remembers her evil deeds.

New Revised Standard
for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
because her sins were joined together as far as heaven, and God hath remembered her unrighteous deeds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her iniquities.

Revised Standard Version
for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For her synnes are gon vp to heven and God hath remembred her wyckednes.

Young's Literal Translation
because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For her synnes are gone vp to heauen, and the LORDE hath remembred her wyckednes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembred her iniquities.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Her wrongs are stacked against her all the way to heaven and God will not forget her wicked deeds.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had much power. The earth was made bright with his shining-greatness. ² He cried out with a loud voice, "The big and powerful city of Babylon is destroyed. Demons and every kind of unclean spirit live there. Unclean birds that are hated are there. ³ For she gave her wine to the nations of the world. It was the wine of her desire for sex sins. The kings of the earth have done these sex sins with her. The men of the earth who buy and sell have become rich from the riches she received while living in sin." ⁴ I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out from her, my people. Do not be a part of her sins so you will not share her troubles. ⁵ For her sins are as high as heaven. God is ready to punish her for her sins. ⁶ Pay her back for what she has paid you. Give back to her twice as much for what she has done. In her own cup give her twice as much as she gave. ⁷ Give her as much trouble and suffering as the fun and the rich living she chose for herself. In her heart she says, ‘I sit here like a queen. I am not a woman whose husband has died. I will never have sorrow.' ⁸ Because of this, troubles of death and sorrow and no food will come to her in one day. She will be burned with fire. For the Lord God is powerful. He is the One Who says she is guilty.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

reached: Genesis 18:20, Genesis 18:21, 2 Chronicles 28:9, Ezra 9:6, Jeremiah 51:9, Jonah 1:2

and: Revelation 16:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 8:1 - God remembered Judges 20:13 - would not Psalms 16:4 - Their Psalms 79:8 - remember Isaiah 1:4 - Ah sinful Isaiah 14:4 - How Isaiah 47:3 - I will take Jeremiah 44:21 - did Jeremiah 51:6 - for this Jeremiah 51:49 - As Babylon Jeremiah 51:56 - the Lord Ezekiel 24:8 - I have set Daniel 4:22 - thy greatness Zechariah 5:2 - the length Acts 2:40 - Save

Cross-References

Genesis 19:8
See, I have two daughters who have never had a man. Let me bring them out to you. And do to them whatever you want. But do nothing to these men, for they have come to be safe under my roof."

Genesis 33:10
But Jacob said, "No, I ask of you, if I have found favor in your eyes, then receive my gift. For I see your face as one sees the face of God. You have received me with favor.

Judges 6:18
I ask of You, do not leave here until I return to You with my gift and lay it before You." And the Lord said, "I will stay until you return."

Judges 13:15
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "We ask of you, stay with us. So we may get a young goat ready for you to eat."

Judges 19:5
They got up early in the morning on the fourth day to get ready to go. The girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Eat a piece of bread to get your strength. Then you may go."

Psalms 104:15
wine that makes man's heart glad, oil to make his face shine, and food to make his heart strong.

Isaiah 3:1
See, the Lord, the Lord God of All, is going to take away from Jerusalem and Judah all they have to keep themselves alive and safe, all the bread and all the water.

Matthew 6:11
Give us the bread we need today.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For her sins have reached unto heaven,.... Or "have followed unto heaven"; one after another, in one age after another, until they have been as it were heaped up together, and have reached the heavens; the phrase denotes the multitude of them, God's knowledge and notice of them, and the cry of them to him; see

Genesis 18:20 the Alexandrian copy and Complutensian edition read, "have cleaved", or "glued", and so the Syriac and Arabic versions seem to have read; her sins were as it were soldered together, and stuck fast to her, and being joined and linked together, made a long chain, and reached to heaven, and cleaved to that, and cried for vengeance:

and God hath remembered her iniquities; and is about to punish her for them; for as forgiveness of sin is signified by a non-remembrance of it, so punishment of sin by a remembrance of it, and of the persons that commit it; see Revelation 16:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For her sins have reached unto heaven - So in Jeremiah 51:9, speaking of Babylon, it is said, “For her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.” The meaning is not that the sins of this mystical Babylon were like a mass or pile so high as to reach to heaven, but that it had become so prominent as to attract the attention of God. Compare Genesis 4:10, “The voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.” See also Genesis 18:20.

And God hath remembered her iniquities - He had seemed to forget them, or not to notice them, but now he acted as if they had come to his recollection. See the notes on Revelation 16:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 18:5. Her sins have reached unto heaven — They are become so great and enormous that the long-suffering of God must give place to his justice.