⁸ A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’^[a](A) which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”^(B)

Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast

17 One of the seven angels^(A) who had the seven bowls^(B) came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment^(C) of the great prostitute,^(D) who sits by many waters.^(E)

¹⁵ Then the angel said to me, “The waters^(A) you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.^(B)

¹⁸ The woman you saw is the great city^(A) that rules over the kings of the earth.”