AND there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, & talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgement of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:

With whom the kings of the Earth have committed fornication, & the inhabitants of the Earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: & I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads & ten horns.

And the woman was arrayed in purple & scarlet colour, & glittering with gold & precious stones & pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations & filthiness of her fornication:

And upon her forehead was a name written

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS & ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, & with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: & when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.