ISB ~ Revelation 17 v16

make her … naked:A public disgracing of the harlot.

• It recalls how the Lord, in OT times, punished the “brazen harlot” Jerusalem (Ezek 16:30) by sending her Gentile lovers to strip her naked and stone her (Ezek 16:35-43; 23:22-31).

burn her up with fire:If the harlot is Jerusalem, this symbolizes the Roman conquest of the city in A.D. 70. Interpreters who see the main referent throughout the chapter as Rome (or Jerusalem) exclusively often read this in terms of self-destruction caused by infighting or civil war.