And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude. This is the response to the invitation just uttered in Revelation 19:5. Again "the voice of a multitude," as in Revelation 19:1. And as the voice of many waters.
That is, in its suggestiveness of great power and magnitude (cf. Revelation 1:15; Revelation 14:2; Psalms 93:3; Jeremiah 51:16). And as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying. A repetition of the idea contained in the preceding clause.
The case of the participle is doubtful; A, P, and others have λεγόντων; many cursives א has ' λεγόντας; λεγούσων; the nominative λέγοντες is found in B and others. Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
(On "Hallelujah," see Revelation 19:1.) These words connect the present passage with Revelation 17:14. They exhibit, as it were, the culminating reason for this adoration of God. He has exhibited his almighty power in the overthrow of Babylon, who said, "I sit a queen;" and in the overthrow (which has yet to be narrated more fully) of the kings of the earth.