Apocalypse 2:22

Louis Segond

Voici, je vais la jeter sur un lit, et envoyer une grande tribulation à ceux qui commettent adultère avec elle, à moins qu'ils ne se repentent de leurs oeuvres.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Voici, je vais la réduire au lit, et [mettre] dans une grande affliction ceux qui commettent adultère avec elle, s'ils ne se repentent de leurs œuvres;

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Voici, je vais la jeter sur un lit de douleur; et ceux qui se livrent à l'adultère avec elle, seront dans une grande affliction, s'ils ne se repentent de leurs actions.

Darby's French Translation
Voici, je la jette sur un lit, et ceux qui commettent adultère avec elle, dans une grande tribulation, à moins qu'ils ne se repentent de ses oeuvres;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and them: Revelation 17:2, Revelation 18:3, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 19:18-21, Ezekiel 16:37-41, Ezekiel 23:29, Ezekiel 23:45-48

except: Jeremiah 36:3, Ezekiel 18:30-32, Ezekiel 33:11, Zephaniah 3:7, Luke 13:3, Luke 13:5, 2 Corinthians 12:21, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 9:2 - General Numbers 5:16 - set her Proverbs 7:16 - decked Jeremiah 44:5 - they Ezekiel 32:25 - set her Luke 15:15 - he went John 8:11 - go Revelation 2:5 - and repent Revelation 2:16 - Repent Revelation 3:3 - repent Revelation 3:19 - repent Revelation 9:20 - yet

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, I will cast her into a bed,.... Of sickness and languishing; and which denotes the sickly, pining, and languishing state of the church of Rome, as a just retaliation for her bed of luxury and deliciousness, adultery and idolatry, she had indulged herself in; this was threatened, and was yet to come, and began at the time of the Reformation, signified by the next church state; and, ever since, the whore of Rome has been visibly sickening and decaying. The Alexandrian copy reads, "into a prison":

and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation: the kings of the earth, and their subjects, who have joined in the idolatries and corruptions of the Romish church, Revelation 17:2, which may be understood either of that distress and uneasiness the Reformation in some countries gave them; or those outward troubles, wars, and desolations they have been since attended with, particularly the empire of Germany; which has been in great tribulation, formerly by the Turks, and of late by internal broils among themselves, and by the armies of other princes entering into it; or it may regard that eternal vengeance that will be recompensed to all such persons:

except they repent of their deeds; their spiritual fornication or idolatry, and all the abominations the members of that apostate church are guilty of. There seems to be an allusion in this verse to Ahaziah and Joram, sons of Ahab and Jezebel, who followed their mother's idolatrous practices, and were cast upon a bed of sickness, 2 Kings 1:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold, I will cast her into a bed - Not into a bed of ease, but a bed of pain. There is evidently a purpose to contrast this with her former condition. The harlot’s bed and a sick-bed are thus brought together, as they are often, in fact, in the dispensations of Providence and the righteous judgments of God. One cannot be indulged without leading on, sooner or later, to the horrid sufferings of the other: and how soon no one knows.

And them that commit adultery with her - Those who are seduced by her doctrines into this sin; either they who commit it with her literally, or who are led into the same kind of life.

Into great tribulation - Great suffering; disease of body or tortures of the soul. How often - how almost uniformly is this the case with those who thus live! Sooner or later, sorrow always comes upon the licentious; and God has evinced by some of his severest judgments, in forms of frightful disease, his displeasure at the violation of the laws of purity. There is no sin that produces a mere withering and desolating effect upon the soul than what is here referred to; none which is more certain to be followed with sorrow.

Except they repent of their deeds - It is only by repentance that we can avoid the consequences of sin. The word “repent” here evidently includes both sorrow for the past, and abandonment of the evil course of life.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 2:22. Behold, I will cast her into a bed — "This again alludes to the same history. Ahaziah, son of Ahab and Jezebel, by his mother's ill instruction and example, followed her ways. God punished him by making him fall down, as is supposed, from the top of the terrace over his house, and so to be bedridden for a long time under great anguish, designing thereby to give him time to repent; but when, instead of that, he sent to consult Baalzebub, Elijah was sent to pronounce a final doom against his impenitence. Thus the son of Jezebel, who had committed idolatry with and by her advice, was long cast into the bed of affliction, and not repenting, died: in the same manner his brother Jehoram succeeded likewise. All this while Jezebel had time and warning enough to repent; and though she did not prevail with Jehoram to continue in the idolatrous worship of Baal, yet she persisted in her own way, notwithstanding God's warnings. The sacred writer, therefore, here threatens the Gnostic Jezebel to make that wherein she delighteth, as adulterers in the bed of lust, to be the very place, occasion, and instrument, of her greatest torment. So in Isaiah, the bed is made a symbol of tribulation, and anguish of body and mind. See Isaiah 28:20; Job 33:19.