⁴ En ziet, de heerlijkheid des Gods van Israel was aldaar, naar de gedaante, die ik in de vallei gezien had.

¹⁵ Ook neemt het oog des overspelers de schemering waar, zeggende: Geen oog zal mij zien; en hij legt een deksel op het aangezicht.

³ He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

⁴ The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

⁵ And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

⁶ I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.