Moffatt(i)
4 worshipping the dragon for having given authority to the Beast, and worshipping the Beast with the cry, "Who is like the Beast? Who can fight with him?"
5 He was allowed to utter loud and blasphemous vaunts, and allowed to exert authority for two and forty months;
6 so he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling (that is, the dwellers in heaven).
7 He was allowed to wage war on the saints and to conquer them, and given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation;
8 and all the dwellers on earth will be his worshippers, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life.