The Revelation to John, Chapter 17
{17:1} One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and
spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the
great prostitute who sits on many waters, {17:2} with whom the kings
of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the
earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."
{17:3} He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a
woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names,
having seven heads and ten horns. {17:4} The woman was dressed in
purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and
pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the
impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. {17:5} And on her
forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER
OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." {17:6} I saw
the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
{17:7} The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the
mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the
seven heads and the ten horns. {17:8} The beast that you saw was, and
is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into
destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not
been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will
marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and [1>]shall be
present.[<1] {17:9} Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads
are seven mountains, on which the woman sits. {17:10} They are seven
kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When
he comes, he must continue a little while. {17:11} The beast that was,
and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he
goes to destruction. {17:12} The ten horns that you saw are ten kings
who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as
kings, with the beast, for one hour. {17:13} These have one mind, and
they give their power and authority to the beast. {17:14} These will
war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord
of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him,
called and chosen and faithful." {17:15} He said to me, "The waters
which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes,
nations, and languages. {17:16} The ten horns which you saw, and the
beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and
will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly
with fire. {17:17} For God has put in their hearts to do what he has
in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the
beast, until the words of God should be accomplished. {17:18} The
woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of
the earth."
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Footnotes:
[1] {17:8} TR reads "yet is" instead of "shall be present"
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