Babylon

And a mightyangel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying,Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

—Bible (NewTestament)

And upon her forehead was a name written,.

—Bible (NewTestament)

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we 98 wept, whenwe remembered Zion.We hanged ourharps uponthewillows inthemidst thereof.For therethey that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one ofthesongs of Zion.Howshall wesing theL'ssong in a strange land?

—Bible (Old Testament)

By the waters of Babylon we sit down and weep, when we think of thee,OAmerica!

—Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford

Ere Babylon was dust, The Magus Zoroaster, my dead child, Met his own image walking in the garden, That apparition, sole of men, he saw.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

London is a modern Babylon.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

A mounted Kelt is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.

—Comnena, Anna