^2 (A)with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and ^(B)with the wine of whose sexual immorality ^(C)the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” ³ And ^(D)he carried me away in the Spirit ^(E)into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on ^(F)a scarlet beast that was full of ^(G)blasphemous names, and ^(H)it had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman ^(I)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned ^(J)with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand ^(K)a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. ⁵ And on her forehead was written a name of ^(L)mystery: ^(M)“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.” ⁶ And I saw the woman, drunk ^(N)with the blood of the saints, the blood of ^(O)the martyrs of Jesus.^[a]

When I saw her, I marveled greatly.