Revelation 18:22-23, the millstone, the lamp, the bridegroom and the bride

In Jeremiah the loss falls on Judah, and Babylon is God's instrument. In Revelation it falls on Babylon herself. The Hebrew of Jeremiah 25:10 has the sound of millstones (kol rechayim), which the vault's Greek gives as the scent of perfume; John has the sound of a mill. John reverses Jeremiah's order and shortens the double voice.

The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible says Babylon reaps what it sowed: Jerusalem lost these sounds when Babylon conquered it. Beale reads the loss as the end of the joys of prosperity. The silence contrasts with the wedding of the Lamb that follows (19:7).

Beale says loss of joy through lost prosperity is echoed from Jeremiah 25:10 in 18:22b-23a, with Jeremiah 7:34 and 16:9 likely included, where loss is also pictured in wedding terms (compare Jeremiah 33:11). He notes that some copies repeat the word voice before the bride, bringing it closer to Jeremiah, and judges the shorter reading original. The passages from Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Isaiah together point to the fall of the world system. Keener cites Jeremiah 16:9 and 25:10 and Joel 1:8 for the image of stifled joy. The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible cites Jeremiah 25:10 and 16:9 and says Babylon now reaps what it sowed. The ESV Study Bible cites Jeremiah 7:34 and 25:10, the CSB Study Bible's cross-references give Jeremiah 25:10, and the NIV Biblical Theology Study Bible says the verse alludes to Jeremiah 25:10. That the vault's Greek of 25:10 reads perfume where the sense of the Hebrew and John is millstones is noted here from the interlinear. The grade is drawn here: four items of the list match Jeremiah.