⁷ When they have finished their testimony and given their evidence, the beast that comes up out of the abyss (bottomless pit) will wage war with them, and overcome them and kill them.^{(A) 8} And their dead bodies will lie exposed in the open street of the great city (Jerusalem), which in a spiritual sense is called [by the symbolic and allegorical names of] Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.^{(B) 9} Those from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations ^[a]look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.