The Revelation to Yochanan, 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 holy ones, and with the blood
of the martyrs of Yeshua. 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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