Charles Ellicott Commentary Revelation 18:5

"for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." — Revelation 18:5 (ASV)

For her sins have reached . . .—Better, For her sins have reached as far as heaven. The idea is of a great heap firmly fastened, and towering, like another Babel, as far as heaven (Compare to 2 Chronicles 28:9 and Ezra 9:6). The idea is more than that of the cry of sin reaching heaven, as in the case of Sodom (Genesis 18:20–21); the sins themselves, many and imperial, have touched the face of heaven. God has remembered her . Sometimes the oppressed have thought that God had forgotten the voice of the enemy (Psalms 74:10–23); but the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation (2 Peter 3:8–18).