And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Woe, Woe, O great city &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">because in a single hour she has been destroyed!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Blessed is the one who reads the words of this<n id="1" /> prophecy aloud,<n id="2" /> and blessed are<n id="3" /> those who hear and obey<n id="4" /> the things written in it, because the time is near!<n id="5" />p>

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers<n id="1" /> will in no way be harmed by the second death.&#8217;p>

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness,<n id="1" /> and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering,<n id="2" /> unless they repent of her deeds.

But<n id="1" /> no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.

and the stars in the sky<n id="1" /> fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping<n id="2" /> its unripe figs<n id="3" /> when shaken by a fierce<n id="4" /> wind.

They were shouting out in a loud voice,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Salvation belongs to our God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to the one seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!&#8221;p>

The locusts<n id="1" /> were not given permission<n id="2" /> to kill<n id="3" /> them, but only to torture<n id="4" /> them<n id="5" /> for five months, and their torture was like that<n id="6" /> of a scorpion when it stings a person.<n id="7" />

They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is <i>Abaddoni>, and in Greek, <i>Apollyoni>.<n id="1" />p>

Then<n id="1" /> the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> a measuring rod<n id="2" /> like a staff was given to me, and I was told,<n id="3" /> &#8220;Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.

Their<n id="1" /> corpses will lie in the street<n id="2" /> of the great city that is symbolically<n id="3" /> called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.

Then<n id="1" /> the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to<n id="2" /> sweep her away by a flood,

He<n id="1" /> performed momentous signs, even making fire come down from heaven in front of people<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the third angel<n id="2" /> poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the fourth angel<n id="2" /> poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people<n id="3" /> with fire.

On<n id="1" /> her forehead was written a name, a mystery:<n id="2" /> &#8220;Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the angel<n id="2" /> said to me, &#8220;The waters you saw (where the prostitute is seated) are peoples, multitudes,<n id="3" /> nations, and languages.

As for<n id="1" /> the woman you saw, she is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo<n id="2" /> any longer &#8211;