Revelation 18:19

18:19 And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning, ¹ 

“Woe, Woe, O great city –

in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth –

because in a single hour she has been destroyed!” ² 

Revelation 20:8

20:8 and will go out to deceive ³  the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, ⁴  to bring them together for the battle. They are as numerous as the grains of sand in the sea. ⁵ 

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¹ tn Grk “with weeping and mourning, saying.” Here the participle λέγοντες (legontes) has not been translated because it is redundant in contemporary English.

² tn On ἡρημώθη (Jhrhmwqh) L&N 20.41 states, “to suffer destruction, with the implication of being deserted and abandoned – ‘to be destroyed, to suffer destruction, to suffer desolation.’ ἐρημόομαι: μιᾷ ὥρᾳ ἠρημώθη ὁ τοσοῦτος πλοῦτος ‘such great wealth has been destroyed within a single hour’ Re 18:17.”

³ tn Or “mislead.”

⁴ sn The battle with Gog and Magog is described in the OT in Ezek 38:1-39:20.

⁵ tn Grk “of whom the number of them [is] like the sand of the sea” (an allusion to Isa 10:22).