Revelation 17:1 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ Then came one of the seven angels with the seven plagues and spoke to me, saying, "Come and I will show you the doom of the great Harlot who is seated on many waters,

³⁰ There were two men conversing with him, Moses and Elijah,

³² And they said to one another, "Did not our hearts glow within us when he was talking to us on the road, opening up the scriptures for us?"

¹ After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this."

¹ Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and marvellous: seven angels with seven plagues — the last plagues, for they complete the wrath of God.

⁶ and out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, robed in pure dazzling linen, their breasts encircled with golden belts. ⁷ Then one of the four living Creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever;

¹⁹ the great City was shattered in three parts, the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered to give Babylon the great the cup of the wine of the passion of his anger.

¹ Then came one of the seven angels with the seven plagues and spoke to me, saying, "Come and I will show you the doom of the great Harlot who is seated on many waters, ² with whom the kings of earth have committed vice, and the dwellers on earth have been drunk with the wine of her vice." ³ So he bore me away rapt in the Spirit to the desert, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet Beast covered with blasphemous titles; it had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman was clad in purple and scarlet, her ornaments were of gold and precious stones and pearls, in her hand was a golden cup full of all abominations and the impurities of her vice, ⁵ and on her forehead a name was written by way of symbol, "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and of all abominations on earth." ⁶ Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and as I looked at her I marvelled greatly. ⁷ But the angel said to me, "Why marvel? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman, and of the Beast with the seven heads and the ten horns who carries her. ⁸ The Beast you have seen was, is not, but is to rise from the abyss — yet to perdition he shall go — and the dwellers on earth will wonder (all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of Life), when they see that the Beast was, is not, but is coming. ⁹ Now for the interpretation of the discerning mind! The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman is seated: ¹⁰ also, they are seven kings, of whom five have fallen, one is living, and the other has not arrived yet — and when he does arrive, he can only stay a little while. ¹¹ As for the Beast which was and is not, he is an eighth head: he belongs to the seven, and to perdition he shall go. ¹² As for the ten horns you have seen, they are ten kings who have no royal power as yet, but receive royal authority for an hour along with the Beast; ¹³ they are of one mind, and they confer their power and authority upon the Beast. ¹⁴ They will wage war on the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings — the Lamb and the elect, the chosen, the faithful who are with him." ¹⁵ He also told me, "The waters you saw, on which the woman is seated, are peoples and hosts, nations and tongues. ¹⁶ As for the ten horns you have seen, they and the Beast will hate the harlot, lay her waste, and strip her naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her with fire, ¹⁷ for God has put it into their hearts to execute his purpose, by having one mind and by conferring their royal power upon the Beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

¹⁶ 'Woe and alas, for the great city, robed in linen, in purple and scarlet, her ornaments of gold, of jewels and pearl! ¹⁷ And all this splendour gone in one brief hour!' And all shipmasters and sea-faring folk, sailors and all whose business lies upon the sea, stood far off ¹⁸ as they watched the smoke of her burning, crying, 'What city was like the great City?' ¹⁹ They threw dust on their heads and cried, as they wept and wailed, 'Woe and alas for the great City, where all shipmen made rich profit by her treasures! Gone, gone in one brief hour!'

² True and just are his sentences of doom; he has doomed the great Harlot who destroyed earth with her vice, he has avenged on her the blood of his servants."

⁹ Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues; and he spoke to me thus, "Come, and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."

¹⁵ He who talked to me had a golden wand by way of a measuring-rod, to measure the City and its gates and wall;