Revelation 17:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³ So he carried me away in the spirit^[a] into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.^{(A) 4} The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,^{(B) 5} and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother^[b] of whores^[c] and of earth’s abominations.”^(C)