⁴⁸ But if that wicked servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delayed,’ ⁴⁹ and starts to beat his fellow servants, and eats and drinks with drunkards,^{(A) 50} that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. ⁵¹ He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

⁸ And another, a second angel, followed, saying, “It has fallen, Babylon the Great^(A) has fallen.^[a] She made all the nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality,^[b] which brings wrath.”^(B)