A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
- BSB And a second time they called out: “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”
- NKJV Again they said, “Alleluia! Her smoke rises up forever and ever!”
- NASB And a second time they said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”
- NLT And again their voices rang out: “Praise the Lord! The smoke from that city ascends forever and ever!”
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Quick answer
A second Hallelujah declares that her smoke rises forever and ever. Babylon's judgment is permanent.
Overview
The heavenly chorus repeats its praise, noting the eternal, irreversible nature of Babylon's destruction. The rising smoke, echoing the fall of Sodom and Edom, signifies that her doom will never be undone. God's victory over evil is final, securing the everlasting safety of His redeemed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 34:10It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
- Rev 18:18and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’
- Rev 14:11The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
- Rev 18:9The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
- Jude 1:7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- Rev 19:1After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
- Gen 19:28He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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