016:019 The great city was split into three parts; the cities of
the nations fell; and great Babylon came into remembrance
before God, for Him to make her drink from the wine-cup
of His fierce anger.
016:020 Every island fled away, and there was not a mountain anywhere to be seen.
016:021 And heavy hail, that seemed to be a talent in weight,
fell from the sky upon the people; and they spoke evil of God
on account of the plague of the hail—because the plague
of it was exceedingly severe.
017:001 Then one of the seven angels who were carrying the seven
bowls came and spoke to me. "Come with me," he said,
"and I will show you the doom of the great Harlot who sits
upon many waters.
017:002 The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication."
017:003 So he carried me away in the Spirit into a desert, and there
I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored Wild Beast
which was covered with names of blasphemy and had seven heads
and ten horns.
017:004 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and was
brilliantly attired with gold and jewels and pearls.
She held in her hand a cup of gold, full of abominations,
and she gave filthy indications of her fornication.
017:005 And on her forehead was a name written: "I am a symbol of
great Babylon, the mother of the harlots and of the abominations
of the earth."
017:006 And I saw the woman drinking herself drunk with the blood
of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.
And when I saw her I was filled with utter astonishment.
017:007 Then the angel said to me, "Why are you so astonished?
I will explain to you the secret meaning of the woman and of
the seven-headed, ten-horned Wild Beast which carries her.