Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”

• ·        Babylon’s sin is not only idolatry (referred to with the term fornication), but also pride, greed and selfishly held and wealth.  (DG)

• ·        Translate, "wanton luxury." The reference is not to earthly merchandise, but to spiritual wares, indulgences, idolatries, superstitions, worldly compromises, wherewith the harlot, that is, the apostate Church, has made merchandise of men. (JFB)

Jeremiah 51:7  Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD’S hand, that made all the earth drunk, the nations drank her wine; therefore the nations are deranged.

Nahum 3:4  Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.