And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more;
And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—
`And the merchants of the earth shall weep and sorrow over her, because their lading no one doth buy any more;
And the merchants of the earth weep and grieve over her, because no one buys their lading any more;
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both