⁶ But when He again brings ^(A)the firstborn into the world, He says:

¹¹ Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, ¹² saying with a loud voice:

¹³ And ^(A)every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying:

¹⁴ Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the ^[b]twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped ^[c]Him who lives forever and ever.

Idolatry Is Foolishness

Promise of Blessing and Retribution^(A)

⁸ And another angel followed, saying, ^(A)“Babylon^[a] is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because ^(B)she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”

⁹ Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, ^(C)“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his ^(D)mark on his forehead or on his hand, ¹⁰ he himself ^(E)shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is ^(F)poured out full strength into ^(G)the cup of His indignation. ^(H)He shall be tormented with ^(I)fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

¹² To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to ^[a]us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which ^(A)angels desire to look into.