Then that servant's master will come back one day when the servant does not expect him and at a time he does not know.

The master will cut him in pieces and make him share the fate of the hypocrites. There he will cry and gnash his teeth.

But he will say again, 'I don't know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wicked people!'

How you will cry and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!

will themselves drink God's wine, the wine of his fury, which he has poured at full strength into the cup of his anger! All who do this will be tormented in fire and sulfur before the holy angels and the Lamb.

The smoke of the fire that torments them goes up forever and ever. There is no relief day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, for anyone who has the mark of its name."

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast. Darkness fell over the beast's kingdom, and people bit their tongues because of their pain,

and they cursed the God of heaven for their pains and sores. But they did not turn from their evil ways.