³⁰ How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;

³ So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.

²² For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

⁹ Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

³ Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

¹³ The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

¹ And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels came and said to me, Come here, so that you may see the judging of the evil woman who is seated on the great waters;

² With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.

³ And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;

⁵ And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.

⁶ And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.

¹² Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

¹³ For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

²¹ With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

¹¹ She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

¹² Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

¹³ So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

¹⁵ And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.

¹⁶ So day after day she gave him no peace, for ever questioning him till his soul was troubled to death.