³ For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

¹⁶ To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

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

²⁴ To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

⁵ That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

²¹ With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

² with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."

³ He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

⁴ The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

⁵ And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

⁶ I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.