Revelation 18:20
Good News Translation
Be glad, heaven, because of her destruction! Be glad, God's people and the apostles and prophets! For God has condemned her for what she did to you!

New Revised Standard Version
Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints and apostles and prophets! For God has given judgment for you against her.

Contemporary English Version
The heavens should be happy with God's people and apostles and prophets. God has punished her for them."

New American Bible
Rejoice over her, heaven, you holy ones, apostles, and prophets. For God has judged your case against her.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her.

Rejoice.

Revelation 19:1-3 After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our God. . . .

Judges 5:31 So let all thy enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love thee shine, as the sun shineth in his rising. [32] And the land rested for forty years.

Psalm 48:11 Let mount Sion rejoice, and the daughters of Juda be glad; because of thy judgments, O Lord.

Psalm 58:10 The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

Psalm 96:11-13 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof: . . .

Psalm 107:42 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

Psalm 109:28 They will curse and thou wilt bless: let them that rise up against me be confounded: but thy servant shall rejoice.

Proverbs 11:10 By the blessing of the just the city shall be exalted: and by the mouth of the wicked it shall be overthrown.

Isaiah 44:23 Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy: shout with joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise, thou, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and Israel shall be glorified.

Isaiah 49:13 Give praise, O ye heavens, and rejoice, O earth, ye mountains, give praise with jubilation: because the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy on his poor ones.

Jeremiah 51:47,48 Therefore behold the days come, and I will visit the idols of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her. . . .

and ye.

Ephesians 2:20 Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone:

Ephesians 3:5 Which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit:

Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors:

2 Peter 3:2 That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophet and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.

Jude 1:17 But you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

God.

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Revelation 19:2 For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.

Psalm 18:47 O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.

Psalm 94:1 The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely.

Isaiah 26:21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Luke 11:49,50 For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute. . . .

Luke 18:7,8 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard? . . .

Context
Lament over Babylon
19And they cast dust upon their heads and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices. For, in one hour she is made desolate. 20Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God hath judged your judgment on her. 21And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as this, shall Babylon, that great city, be thrown down and shall be found no more at all.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:48
And the heavens and the earth, and all things that are in them shall give praise for Babylon: for spoilers shall come to her from the north, saith the Lord.

Zephaniah 3:15
The Lord hath taken away thy judgment, he hath turned away thy enemies: the king of Israel, the Lord, is in the midst of thee, thou shalt fear evil no more.

Luke 11:49
For this cause also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets and apostles: and some of them they will kill and persecute.

Revelation 6:10
And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Revelation 12:12
Therefore, rejoice, O heavens, and you that dwell therein. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.

Revelation 18:6
Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her.

Revelation 19:2
For true and just are his judgments, who hath judged the great harlot which corrupted the earth with her fornication and hath revenged the blood of his servants, at her hands.

Revelation 18:19
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