Revelation 13:5-7

Moffatt(i) 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;