The Pulpit Commentary on Revelation 18:7

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How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her. (For "lived deliciously," see on "delicacies," Revelation 18:3.) The words are a re-echo and expansion of those in Revelation 18:6 (cf.

Luke 16:25). For she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow; because she saith, etc.; and contact with the succeeding verse. The prophetical writers still supply the imagery (cf.

Isaiah 47:8, "I shall not sit as a widow;" see also Lamentations 1:1).

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