Revelation 18:11-17 expands on the merchants' mourning — showing the economic collapse behind 18:3's reference.

Revelation 18:9 repeats the image of kings committing adultery with Babylon and mourning her fall.

Revelation 18:15 shows the same merchants who grew rich from Babylon now mourning her destruction, fulfilling the warning of 18:3.

Revelation 17:2 describes kings committing adultery and earth drunk on her wine — identical imagery.

Revelation 14:8 earlier announced Babylon's fall using the same 'wine of adulteries' phrase.

Revelation 19:2 declares judgment on the same great prostitute whose immorality corrupted the earth, as described in 18:3.

Revelation 14:10 uses the same 'wine' metaphor for God's wrath — a contrast to the wine of immorality the nations drink in 18:3.

Jeremiah 51:7 calls historical Babylon a gold cup making nations drunk — the OT source for NT Babylon's wine metaphor.

Jeremiah 51:34 describes Nebuchadnezzar devouring Israel's delicates; Revelation applies this language to Babylon's judgment.

Micah 1:7 describes idolatrous wealth as a harlot's hire — same metaphor of ill-gotten gain from spiritual unfaithfulness.

Habakkuk 2:15 pronounces woe on Babylon for making nations drink — same drunkenness metaphor for exploitation.

Nahum 3:4 calls Nineveh a harlot who sells nations — mirroring Babylon's global corruption through harlotry.

2 Kings 9:22 uses 'whoredoms' for Jezebel's idolatry, directly paralleling Babylon's fornication as spiritual adultery.

In Ezekiel 27:33, Tyre's trade enriches kings — directly paralleling Babylon's economic seduction of merchants and nations.

Ezekiel 27:3 addresses Tyre, a merchant city — a type of the wealthy, trading Babylon condemned in Revelation 18.

Jeremiah 25:16 depicts drinking that leads to staggering from the sword — the same cup-of-wrath imagery used for Babylon’s judgment.

Isaiah 47:8 directly targets Babylon’s pride ('I am, and there is no one besides me') — a key OT prophecy Revelation echoes.

Lamentations 4:5 shows those who fed delicately now desolate, paralleling Babylon's fall from luxury to ruin.

Isaiah 63:6 has God making nations drunk in wrath — parallel to the wine of God’s wrath in Revelation’s judgment.

2 Peter 2:1-3 describes false teachers leading many into destructive heresies, mirroring how Babylon's 'wine of fornication' deceives the nations.

Isaiah 32:14 depicts a forsaken palace and deserted city — similar imagery to Babylon's desolation in Revelation.

Isaiah 25:2 describes a city reduced to a heap — the same fate that awaits Babylon in Revelation, reinforcing the judgment image.