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Revelation 18:22–23
Revelation 18:20–24 answers Babylon’s splendor with final silence. A mighty angel casts a millstone into the sea as a sign of the city’s irreversible fall, and music, craft, commerce, light, and wedding celebration disappear. The closing charge explains the judgment: Babylon deceived the nations and was found responsible for the blood of prophets and saints.
Revelation's extinguishing of music, mill, lamp, and wedding voices reuses Jeremiah's judgment language.
Revelation’s silencing of bridegroom and bride in Babylon directly recalls Jeremiah 7:34’s judgment in which the voices of bridegroom and bride cease from Judah.
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