“The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again!”
Here we have, I. A doleful lamentation made by Babylon's friends for her fall; and here observe, 1. Who are the mourners, namely, those who had been bewitched by her fornication, those who had been sharers in her sensual pleasures, and those who had been gainers by her wealth and trade - the kings and the merchants of the earth: the kings of the earth...
Commenting on Revelation 18:9-24
The merchants of these things,.... Before mentioned, who have traded in them for themselves and for Rome: which were made rich by her, see Rev 18:3 shall stand afar off for fear of her torment; as the kings of the earth before, Rev 18:10 being conscious to themselves of their being partners in her crimes, and so might justly fear they should share in her...
Verse 14. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after. Literally, "The fruits of the desire of thy soul." The word rendered fruits-- οπωρα--properly means, late summer; dog-days--the time when Sirius, or the dog-star, is predominant. In the East, this is the season when the fruits ripen, and hence the word comes to denote fruit.