In Revelation 18:11–13 John had described the response of the merchants to Babylon’s fall. The present verse unexpectedly contains a shift to the second person singular pronoun “you,” “your.” The referent of the singular pronoun can scarcely be the merchants of Revelation 18:11 because that would require a plural. As the kings in Revelation 18:9 addressed fallen Babylon in their dirge, so this verse addresses fallen Babylon. We could surmise that the speaker is the “another voice” mentioned in Revelation 18:4, which would make sense. However, since the speaker is not explicitly identified, our attention ought not to lie on who says these words but on what is said.
14 “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!”