And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
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Bede
AD 735
cities: That is to say, all the strength and confidence of the nations. For the mirth of the ungodly is their fall, and the joy of the unjust their destruction.