Revelation 18:11 - The earthly merchants will mourn her passing, crying tears over the fact that none shall purchase their wares:; [Turker's Comment: Bit obvious, this one. The defeat of the Whore of Babylon and I guess the collapse of capitalism or something.]
Revelation 18:12 - The precious physical materialistic possesions,; [Turker's Comment: explaining physical possesions;]
Revelation 18:13 - Included cinnamon, aromas, lotions, frankincense, wine, oil, flours and wheats, creatures, sheep, horses, carriages, slaves, and essences of men.
Revelation 18:14 - All things that you desired are gone forever. You will never find them again.
Revelation 18:15 - Those who sell these things made rich by her will run from the fear of her torture, crying and screaming,; [Turker's Comment: If you make these things something to sell you will be tormented.]
Revelation 18:16 - And saying, that wealthy city is full of citizens wearing fancy clothing and expensive jewelry. [Turker's Comment: There is a city full of wealthy people wearing fancy and garish things.]
Revelation 18:17 - In just a short time great wealth can become nothing. And every ship captain along with his company and sailors, and those who work in the sea, stood a distance away,; [Turker's Comment: The author is describing the way that someone who is rich can be made poor almost instantly.]
Revelation 18:18 - The sight of the smoke made them weep, as they cried out, No other city is like this great city!; [Turker's Comment: People wept as they saw their great city burning and cried out that no other city was like it.]
Revelation 18:19 - And they were very sad saying: The city that made everyone rich has been turned into a ghost town in just a single hour. [Turker's Comment: People are mourning the loss of a great city. I've seen some whack jobs suggest that this refers to 9/11.]
Revelation 18:20 - Be joyful all you Godly heaven, saints, apostle, prophets for God had already given the judgment for her. [Turker's Comment: This phrase is about the judgment of God for her and making the saints, apostles, etc. rejoice for it.]
Revelation 18:21 - And a majestic angel lifted the stone as if it were a large millstone, and threw it into the sea, and said, With the same sort of violence shall Babylon, the great city, be felled, and obliterated so as to seem it never existed,; [Turker's Comment: More Revelations. The threat against Babylon or the entity it symbolically stands in for.]
Revelation 18:22 - The sound of people playing harps, of musicians, of pipers, and those playing trumpets, will no longer be heard in you; and no crafters who do any type of craft shall be found in you anymore, and the sound of someone grinding flour at a mill wiill not be; [Turker's Comment: The city is being judged.]
Revelation 18:23 - There will be no more light in you; there will be no voice of brides and grooms in you: the sellers were the great men on the earth; by your tricks, the entire world was deceived.
Revelation 18:24 - And on her was found the blood of God’s prophets, and of His saints, and of all the Earth’s populations. [Turker's Comment: Revelations reference to the Great Whore? Whoever she is, she has the blood of men on her hands.]
