Revelation 18:23

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²³the light of a lamp
will never shine in you again;
and the voice of a groom and bride
will never be heard in you again.^(A)
All this will happen
because your merchants
were the nobility of the earth,
because all the nations were deceived
by your sorcery,^[a]

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Footnotes

Revelation 18:23 Ancient sorcery or witchcraft often used spells and drugs. Here the term may be non-literal, that is, Babylon drugged the nations with her beauty and power.

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