Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me and said, "Come, and I will show you how the famous prostitute is to be punished, that great city that is built near many rivers.

The danger of death was all around me; the waves of destruction rolled over me.

You calm the roar of the seas and the noise of the waves; you calm the uproar of the peoples.

The ocean depths raise their voice, O LORD; they raise their voice and roar.

I, the Lord, will bring the emperor of Assyria and all his forces to attack Judah. They will advance like the flood waters of the Euphrates River, overflowing all its banks.

They will sweep through Judah in a flood, rising shoulder high and covering everything." God is with us! His outspread wings protect the land.

That country has many rivers and rich treasures, but its time is up, and its thread of life is cut.

The sea has rolled over Babylon and covered it with roaring waves.

I am destroying Babylon and putting it to silence. The armies rush in like roaring waves and attack with noisy shouts.

Then I was told, "Once again you must proclaim God's message about many nations, races, languages, and kings."

People from all nations, tribes, languages, and races will look at their bodies for three and a half days and will not allow them to be buried.

It was allowed to fight against God's people and to defeat them, and it was given authority over every tribe, nation, language, and race.

All people living on earth will worship it, except those whose names were written before the creation of the world in the book of the living which belongs to the Lamb that was killed.