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ApocalypseChapitre 18

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After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven. He had great authority, and the earth was lit up by his glory.
He called out with a mighty voice: "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling of demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of the passion of her immorality; the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxury."
Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you do not share in her sins and receive none of her plagues.
For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
Pay her back as she has paid others; repay her double for what she has done. Mix her a double portion in the cup she mixed for others.
As much as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her that much torment and grief. For in her heart she says, 'I sit as queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief.'
Therefore in a single day her plagues will come upon her—death and grief and famine—and she will be burned with fire, for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.
The kings of the earth who committed immorality with her and shared her luxury will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.
They will stand far off, terrified at her torment, and say: "Woe, woe to the great city, Babylon the mighty city! In a single hour your judgment has come."
The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo anymore—
cargo of gold and silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and purple, silk and scarlet; every kind of citron wood, every article of ivory, every article of costly wood, of bronze, iron, and marble;
cinnamon and spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine and olive oil, fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep, horses and carriages; and slaves—yes, human lives.
"The fruit your soul craved has left you; all your splendor and luxury are gone, never to be found again."
The merchants who dealt in these things and grew rich from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment, weeping and mourning:
"Woe, woe to the great city, dressed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, glittering with gold, precious stones, and pearl!
In a single hour such great wealth has been laid waste!" And every ship's captain, all who sail anywhere, the sailors and all who make their living from the sea, stood far off
and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning: "What city was ever like the great city?"
They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning: "Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich from her wealth! In a single hour she has been laid waste."
Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has judged her for what she did to you.
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying: "With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.
The sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never be heard in you again. No craftsman of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of the millstone will never be heard in you again.
The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and by your magic spells all the nations were led astray.
And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who have been slaughtered on the earth."
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