[1] And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with saying Come hither; I will shew the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: [2] With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth with the wine of her fornication. [3] So away in the spirit into the wilderness: and a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. [4] And the woman arrayed and scarlet colour, and decked and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and of her fornication: [5] And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. [6] And the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and her, I wondered with great admiration. [7] And the angel said didst thou marvel? I will tell the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. [8] The beast that and not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast and not, [9] And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. [10] And seven kings: five are fallen, and one and the other not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. [11] And the beast that and not, even he the eighth, and of the seven, and goeth into perdition. [12] And the ten horns which ten kings, which have received kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings hour with the beast. [13] These have mind, and power and strength unto the beast.