And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Lived deliciously - luxuriated. The faithless church, instead of reproving, connived at the world's self-indulgent luxury, and sanctioned it by her practice. Contrast the world's rejoicing over the two witnesses' dead bodies (Revelation 11:10) who had tormented it by faithfulness, with its lamentations over the harlot who made the way to heaven smooth, and was a useful tool in controlling subjects. Men's carnal mind relishes the apostate church, which gives an opiate to conscience and virtual license to lusts.
Bewail her. 'Aleph (') A B C, Syriac, Coptic, Cyprian, omit "her."