Revelation 18:2. He cried with a mighty voice. This is the only passage in the book in which a voice is spoken of as ‘mighty,' the usual appellation being ‘great.' In chap. Revelation 19:6 we read of ‘mighty thunders' and it is impossible to doubt, therefore, that this voice is described in a similar way, not because all men are to hear it, but because it is to strike all with awe and terror (comp. Revelation 18:8).

Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen. These words have already met us at chap. Revelation 14:8 (comp. Isaiah 21:9), but the description is now enlarged, Old Testament passages such as Isaiah 13:21; Jeremiah 51:37, supplying the particulars.

Everything about the city is chanced into a wild and hateful desert. The unclean beasts and birds themselves that are driven into her ruins regard them as a prison.

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Old Testament