Revelation 17:5 Cross References - Moffatt

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."

¹⁹ Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

⁷ For the secret force of lawlessness is at work already; only, it cannot be revealed till he who at present restrains it is removed.

¹ Mark this, there are hard times coming in the last days. ² For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent, ³ callous, relentless, scurrilous, dissolute, and savage; they will hate goodness, ⁴ they will be treacherous, reckless and conceited, preferring pleasure to God — ⁵ for though they keep up a form of religion, they will have nothing to do with it as a force. Avoid all such.

³ "Do no harm to earth or sea or trees, until we seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads."

⁸ and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt — where their Lord also was crucified.

⁸ And another, a second angel followed, crying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her vice!"

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.

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.

² and he shouted aloud with a strong voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, now she is a haunt of demons, the den of all foul spirits, a cage for every foul and loathsome bird:

⁹ And the kings at the earth who committed vice and wantoned with her shall weep and wail over her, as they watch the smoke of her burning; ¹⁰ for fear of her torture they will stand far off, crying, 'Woe and alas, thou great city! thou strong city of Babylon! In one brief hour thy doom has come.'

²¹ Then a strong angel lifted a boulder like a huge millstone and flung it into the sea, crying, "So shall the great city, Babylon, be hurled down, hurtling, and never be seen any more:

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."