19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
the great City was split into three parts – Mystery Babylon is compared to the idolatrous Israel, who God judged in Ezek 5:2: “you shall burn with fire 1/3 in the midst of the city, when the days of seige are finished; then you shall take 1/3 and strike it around with the sword, and 1/3 you shall scatter to the wind…”