You have built a house of harlotry at the head of every road, and have set up your high place in every street; and you became as a harlot gathering payments.

And having taken off the garments of her widowhood from her, she put on a veil, and ornamented her face, and sat by the gates of Aenan, which is in the way to Timna, for she saw that Shelah was grown; but she was not given to him as a wife.

And he asked the men of the place, Where is the harlot who was in Aenan by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot here.

She sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the streets,

calling to passers by, and to those that are going right on their ways;

Wherefore now their glory has been brought low, and the shame of their countenance has withstood them, and they have proclaimed their sin as Sodom, and made it manifest.

How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? Behold your ways in the burial ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening;

she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up [to them], who will turn her back? None that seek her shall be weary; at [the time of] her humiliation they shall find her.

Lift up your eyes [and look] straight ahead, and see where you have not been utterly defiled. You have sat for them by the wayside as a deserted crow, and have defiled the land with your fornications and your wickedness.

They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who were [truly] ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace; therefore shall they [utterly] fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, says the Lord.

Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the children of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

They uncovered her shame; they took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a byword among women; and they wrought vengeance in her for the sake of the daughters.

Thus says the Lord: Drink your sister's cup, deep and large and full, to cause complete drunkenness.

Then one of the seven angels having the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters,

And he led me away in [the] Spirit, into a deserted [place]. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast being filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.