Revelation Chapter 18 verse 5 Holy Bible
for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
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For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.
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for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.
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For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
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for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
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because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. That is, the accumulation of sin is so great as to reach up to the heaven. Exactly the description of the judgment of Babylon given in Jeremiah 51:9, "Forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies." The last part of the verse is a repetition of Revelation 16:19.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) For her sins have reached . . .--Better, For her sins have reached as far as heaven. The idea is of a great heap firmly fastened, and towering, like another Babel, as far as heaven. (Comp. 2Chronicles 28:9, and Ezra 9:6.) The idea is more than that of the cry of sin reaching heaven, as in the case of Sodom (Genesis 18:20-21); the sins themselves, many and imperial, have touched the face of heaven. God hath remembered her. (Comp. Revelation 16:19). Sometimes the oppressed have thought that God had forgotten the voice of the enemy (Psalm 74:10-23); but the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation (2Peter 3:8-18. . . .
