Revelation 19:2

ἔφθειρεν, as the first Babylon had been denounced for her depraving influence by Jeremiah (51) Jeremiah 28:25, τὸ ὄρος τὸ διεφθαρμένον τὸ διαφθεῖρον πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν. The impatient cry of Revelation 6:10 has now been answered. God “has avenged the blood (i.e., the murder) of his servants at her hand (i.e., on her),” the LXX rendering (e.g., in 2 Kings 9:7, καὶ ἐκδικήσεις τὰ αἵματα τῶν δούλων Κυρίου ἐκ χειρὸς Ἰεζάβελ) of the Heb. idiom נקם דם מיד = to exact punishment from a murderer. The idea is substantially that of Ps. Song of Solomon 4:9, Song of Solomon 8:29. As ἀληθ. καὶ δικ. are a characteristically ample expression for “equitable,” it is in the context rather than in the language of the passage (Ritschl, Rechtf. und Versöhn. ii. 118, 119) that we must find the thought of God being shown to be the real and righteous Saviour of the saints by his infliction of punishment on their persecutors.