Revelation 17

1One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,Cross-references: Isa 1:21 · Isa 57:3 · Jer 2:20 · Jer 51:13 · Nah 3:4 · Luke 9:30 · +9 more

2with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”Cross-references: Jer 51:7 · Rev 3:10 · Rev 14:8 · Rev 17:13 · Rev 17:17 · Rev 18:3 · +2 more

3He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:12 · 2Ki 2:16 · Song 8:5 · Ezek 3:12 · Ezek 8:3 · Ezek 11:24 · +17 more

4The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.Cross-references: Deut 29:17 · 1Ki 14:24 · 2Ki 21:2 · Ezra 9:11 · Isa 66:3 · Jer 51:7 · +13 more

5And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”Cross-references: Isa 3:9 · Jer 51:47 · Phil 3:19 · 2Thess 2:7 · 2Tim 3:1 · Rev 7:3 · +8 more

6I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.Cross-references: Dan 7:21 · Dan 7:25 · Hab 1:13 · Acts 22:20 · Rev 2:13 · Rev 6:9 · +5 more

7The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.Cross-references: Rev 17:1 · Rev 17:8

8The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.Cross-references: Dan 7:7 · Dan 7:11 · Dan 7:26 · Dan 11:45 · Matt 25:34 · John 17:24 · +17 more

9Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.Cross-references: Dan 12:4 · Dan 12:8 · Hos 14:9 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 24:15 · Rev 13:1 · +4 more

10They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, and the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.

11The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.Cross-references: Rev 17:8

12The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.Cross-references: Dan 2:40 · Dan 7:7 · Dan 7:20 · Dan 7:24 · Zech 1:18 · Rev 12:3 · +5 more

13These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.Cross-references: Isa 10:5 · Ezek 38:10 · Acts 4:28 · Phil 1:27 · Phil 2:2 · Rev 17:17

14These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”Cross-references: Deut 10:17 · Ps 2:8 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 110:5 · Ps 136:2 · Ps 149:5 · +33 more

15He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.Cross-references: Ps 18:4 · Ps 65:7 · Ps 93:3 · Isa 8:7 · Jer 51:13 · Jer 51:42 · +5 more

16The ten horns which you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.Cross-references: Lev 21:9 · Job 31:31 · Ps 27:2 · Isa 13:17 · Jer 50:41 · Ezek 16:37 · +10 more

17For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.Cross-references: Ezra 7:27 · Ps 105:25 · Prov 19:21 · Prov 21:1 · Isa 45:17 · Isa 46:10 · +21 more

18The woman whom you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”Cross-references: Dan 2:40 · Dan 7:23 · Luke 2:1 · Rev 12:4 · Rev 16:19 · Rev 18:2