¹⁸ And the woman that you saw is ^(A)the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”

^19 (A)The great city ^(B)was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God ^(C)remembered ^(D)Babylon the great, ^(E)to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

² And he called out with a mighty voice,

²³ “Thus he said: ‘As for ^(A)the fourth beast,

⁴⁰ And ^(A)there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron ^(B)breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall ^(C)break and crush all these. ⁴¹ And as you saw ^(D)the feet and toes, partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the ^(E)firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay.

⁴ His tail swept down ^(A)a third of the stars of heaven and ^(B)cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child ^(C)he might devour it.

The Birth of Jesus Christ

2 In those days ^(A)a decree went out from ^(B)Caesar Augustus that all the world should be ^(C)registered.