Revelation 18:9 - Exposition

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning; and the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and revelled with her, shall weep and wait over her, when they see, etc. It is noteworthy that this sentence is in the future tense; that in Revelation 18:11 in the present; that in Revelation 18:17 , Revelation 18:18 in the past. (On "committed fornication," see Revelation 18:3 ; Revelation 14:4 , Revelation 14:8 ; Revelation 16:14 ; Revelation 17:2 . On "lived deliciously," see Revelation 17:3 , Revelation 17:7 .) "Lament'' is the same word used in Revelation 1:7 , "All kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him." Cf. the description of the fall of Tyre ( Ezekiel 26:16 ). (On "smoke," see on Revelation 9:2 .)