³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

²¹ His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.

²⁴ To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

²¹ With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

² with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

³ And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication,

⁵ and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

⁶ And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.