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

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

²¹ Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart `is' war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they `are' drawn `swords'.

²⁴ To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

⁵ To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

²¹ She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

² with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;'

³ and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,

⁴ and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,

⁵ and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.'

⁶ And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder -- having seen her -- with great wonder;