Revelation 18:7 - Exposition

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 ).