A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
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A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
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And agayne they said: Alleluya. And smoke rose vp for evermore.
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And againe they saide, Hallelu-iah: and that her smoke rose vp for euermore.
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to Revelation 19:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 34:10 It 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.
- Revelation 18:18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’
- Revelation 14:11 The 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.
- Revelation 18:9 The 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,
- Genesis 19:28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
- Jude 1:7 Even 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.
- Revelation 19:1 After 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;
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The song of the Antiphony or response, containing an…
The song of the Antiphony or response, containing an amplification of the praise of God, from the perpetual and most certain testimony of his divine judgment as was done at Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. 19.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke…
3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Ver. 3. And again they said, Alleluia] As unsatisfiable in performing so divine a duty. Some think that the Hebrew word is retained to import that after Rome is ruined, the Churches of the Gentiles shall by their incessant praises provoke the Jews to join with them, and concelebrate the mercy; like as the Spouse, by praising her Beloved, stirred up those dull daughters of Jerusalem to seek him with her, Son 5:9-10 cf. Rev 6:1.
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And her smoke rose up] Like that of Sodom. Yet wretched Romanists will not be warned, whose judgment therefore is here revealed after that of the sitting of Rome.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As the church proceeded in her praises, so God…
As the church proceeded in her praises, so God proceeded in his judgments upon the great whore, until she was ruined past recovery.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And again they said, Alleluia,.... Or a "second time"…
And again they said, Alleluia,.... Or a "second time" they said it; they began and ended their solemn worship and service with it; so some psalms begin and end with this word, translated in the Old Testament by the words "Praise ye the LORD", as in Psa 106:1 &c. and the repeating of the word shows how hearty, arnest, and constant they were in the work of praise on this account:
and her smoke rose up for ever and ever; they repeated their hallelujah, or gave one spiritual "huzza" more at the burning of Rome, and this followed: or the words may be rendered, "for her smoke rose", &c. and so are a reason for the second "hallelujah": it looks as if Rome, like another Sodom and Gomorrah, would sink into a sulphurous burning lake, and continue so: respect is had to the everlasting punishment of antichrist and his followers in hell, and to the everlasting burnings that will follow Rome's temporal destruction, which was an example and symbol of the vengeance of eternal fire; see Rev 14:11 so the Jews (o) say of the burning of Rome, that its fire shall not be quenched for ever, and that "its smoke shall rise up for".
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(o) Yalkut Simeoni, par. 2. fol. 48. 2.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. Her smoke rose up] There was, and…
Verse 3. Her smoke rose up] There was, and shall be, a continual evidence of God's judgments executed on this great whore or idolatrous city; nor shall it ever be restored.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And again they said, Alleluia - See the notes…
And again they said, Alleluia - See the notes on Rev 19:1. The event was so glorious and so important; the final destruction of the great enemy of the church was of so much moment in its bearing on the welfare of the world, as to call forth repeated expressions of praise.
And her smoke rose up forever and ever - See the notes on Rev 14:11. This is an image of final ruin; the image being derived probably from the description in Genesis of the smoke that ascended from the cities of the plain, Gen 19:28. On the joy expressed here in her destruction, compare the notes on Rev 18:20.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain again--Greek, "a second time."
again--Greek, "a second time."
rose up--Greek, "goeth up."
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for ever and ever--Greek, "to the ages of the ages."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3. Again—A new outburst of praise after a pause.
3. Again—A new outburst of praise after a pause.
Rose up… ever—”The original imagery,” says Stuart, “is taken from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. As they had already become a perpetual desolation, so should spiritual Babylon be.” We may note that the past tense, rose, makes it seem as if the for ever and ever had passed. The real meaning seems to be, that the smoke rose up with a for ever and ever, that is, a fixed perpetuity to it.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. And her smoke &c.] Perhaps best taken as…
3. And her smoke &c.] Perhaps best taken as a part of the anthem. For the word “rose up” should be “riseth.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose…
And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up forever and ever; goeth up. The "smoke" is that of the burning of Babylon, mentioned in Rev_18:9, Rev_18:18. The final nature of this judgment is indicated by the closing words.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 They spoke
They spoke
Here "They" refers to the crowd of people in heaven.
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Hallelujah
This word means "Praise God" or "Let us praise God." See how you translated this in Revelation 19:1.
smoke rises from her
The word "her" refers to the city of Babylon, which is spoken of as if it were a prostitute. The smoke is from the fire that destroys the city. AT: "smoke rises from that city"
twenty-four elders
"24 elders." See how you translated this in Revelation 4:4. (See: Numbers)
the four living creatures
"the four living beings" or "the four living things." See how you translated this in Revelation 4:6
who was seated on the throne
This can be stated in active form. AT: "who sat on the throne" (See: Active or Passive)
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eternity
elder
creature
prostrate
worship
throne
amen
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 19:3 The smoke from that city: God’s people praise…
19:3 The smoke from that city: God’s people praise him once again as they see the evil city’s demise (cp. 14:11).
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