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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and [a]decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, [b]even the unclean things of her fornication, and upon her forehead a name written, [c]Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Harlots and of the Abominations of the Earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the [d]martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 17:4 Greek gilded.
  2. Revelation 17:4 Or, and of the unclean things
  3. Revelation 17:5 Or, a mystery, Babylon the Great
  4. Revelation 17:6 Or, witnesses. See 2:13.