Revelation 17:4, 5

17:4, 54*

The woman was robed in purple and scarlet and bedecked with gold,

precious stones, and pearls, [and she was] holding in her hand a

golden cup full of the accursed offenses and the filth of her

lewdness

and vice. 5And

on her forehead there was inscribed a name of mystery [with a

secret symbolic meaning]: Babylon

the great,

the mother of prostitutes (idolatresses) and of the

filth and atrocitiesand

abominations of the earth.