1 拿着七碗的七位天使中， 有一位来跟我讲话， 说： "你来， 我要把那坐在众水之上的大淫妇所要受的审判指示你。 2 地上的众王都跟她行过淫， 住在地上的人也都喝她淫乱的酒醉了。" 3 我在灵里被天使带到旷野去， 看见一个妇人， 骑着朱红色的兽， 这兽布满了亵渎的名号， 有七头十角。 4 那妇人穿着紫色和朱红色的衣服， 佩戴着金子、宝石和珍珠的装饰， 手里拿着金杯， 盛满了可憎的物， 和她淫乱的污秽。 5 她额上写着一个名号： "奥秘， 大巴比伦， 地上的淫妇和可憎的物之母。" 6 我又看见那妇人喝圣徒的血， 和那为耶稣作见证的人的血， 喝醉了。我看见了她， 就大大惊奇。 7 天使对我说： "你为什么惊奇呢？我要把这妇人的奥秘， 和驮着她的那七头十角的兽的奥秘告诉你。 8 你看见的那兽， 先前在、现今不在、将来要从无底坑上来， 然后走向灭亡。住在世上的人， 凡是名字在创世以来没有记在生命册上的， 看见了那先前在、现今不在、将来还要出现的兽， 就都要惊奇。 9 在这里需要有智慧的心。七头就是那妇人所坐的七座山， 10 也就是七位王： 五位已经倒了， 一位还在， 另一位还没有来到； 他来的时候， 必须存留一会儿。 11 那先前在、现今不在的兽， 就是第八位。他也是出于那七位中的一位的， 并且正在走向灭亡。 12 你看见的那十角， 就是十王， 他们还没有取得王权； 但要跟兽一同得着权柄， 作王一个时期。 13 他们同心合意， 把自己的权力权柄交给那兽。 14 他们要跟羊羔作战， 羊羔必胜过他们， 因为他是万主之主， 万王之王。那些与羊羔同在、蒙召、被选、有忠心的， 也必胜过他们。" 15 天使又对我说： "你所看见那淫妇坐着的众水， 就是多种民族、群众、邦国， 方言的人。 16 你看见的十角和那兽， 都要恨那淫妇， 使她荒凉赤身， 又要吃她的肉， 用火把她烧掉。 17 神要众王行他的旨意， 就把意念放在他们心中， 叫他们同心把自己的国献给那兽， 直到 神的话都实现为止。 18 你看见的那妇人， 就是有权统治地上的众王的那座大城。"

1 And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters,2 with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;`3 and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,4 and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,5 and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.`6 And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;7 and the messenger said to me, `Wherefore didst thou wonder? I -- I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that [is] carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.8 `The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.9 `Here [is] the mind that is having wisdom; the seven heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman doth sit,10 and there are seven kings, the five did fall, and the one is, the other did not yet come, and when he may come, it behoveth him to remain a little time;11 and the beast that was, and is not, he also is eighth, and out of the seven he is, and to destruction he doth go away.12 `And the ten horns that thou sawest, are ten kings, who a kingdom did not yet receive, but authority as kings the same hour do receive with the beast,13 these have one mind, and their own power and authority to the beast they shall give over;14 these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.`15 And he saith to me, `The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;`16 and the ten horns that thou didst see upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire,17 for God did give into their hearts to do its mind, and to make one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast till the sayings of God may be complete,18 and the woman that thou didst see is the great city that is having reign over the kings of the land.`