Revelation 18:11
Good News Translation
The merchants of the earth also cry and mourn for her, because no one buys their goods any longer;

New Revised Standard Version
And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore,

Contemporary English Version
Every merchant on earth will mourn, because there is no one to buy their goods.

New American Bible
The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her, because there will be no more markets for their cargo:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more.

the merchants.

Revelation 18:3,9,15,20,23 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. . . .

Revelation 13:16,17 And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on their foreheads: . . .

Isaiah 23:1-15 The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of the sea, for the house is destroyed, from whence they were wont to come: from the land of Cethim it is revealed to them. . . .

Isaiah 47:15 Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee.

Ezekiel 26:17-21 And taking up a lamentation over thee, they shall say to thee: How art thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea, renowned city that wast strong in the sea, with thy inhabitants whom all did dread? . . .

Ezekiel 27:27-36 Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin. . . .

Zephaniah 1:11,18 Howl, ye inhabitants of the Morter. All the people of Chanaan is hush, all are cut off that were wrapped up in silver. . . .

buyeth.

Proverbs 3:14 She is more precious than all riches: and all the things that are desired, are not to be compared to her.

Matthew 22:5 But they neglected and went their ways, one to his farm and another to his merchandise.

John 2:16 And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.

2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not.

Context
Lament over Babylon
10Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment come. 11And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. 12Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones: and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet: and all thyine wood: and all manner of vessels of ivory: and all manner of vessels of precious stone and of brass and of iron and of marble:…
Cross References
Isaiah 13:19
And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.

Isaiah 47:15
Such are all the things become to thee, in which thou hast laboured: thy merchants from thy youth, every one hath erred in his own way, there is none that can save thee.

Ezekiel 27:9
The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.

Ezekiel 27:27
Thy riches, and thy treasures, and thy manifold furniture, thy mariners, and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and were chief over thy people: thy men of war also, that were in thee, with all thy multitude that is in the midst of thee: shall fall in the heart of the sea in the day of thy ruin.

Revelation 18:3
Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.

Revelation 18:15
The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand afar off from her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning,

Revelation 18:10
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