Revelation 17:1-5
The Woman and the Beast
aThen one of the bseven angels who have the cseven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here, I will show you dthe judgment of the egreat harlot who fsits on many waters, 2 with whom athe kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and bthose who dwell on the earth were cmade drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.” 3 And ahe carried me away bin the Spirit cinto a wilderness; then I saw a woman sitting on a dscarlet beast, full of eblasphemous names, having fseven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman awas clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand ba gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her sexual immorality, 5 and on her forehead a name was written, a amystery, “bBABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF cTHE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”