Revelation 17:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the whore; they will make her desolate and naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will [be the very ones to] hate the harlot (the idolatrous woman); they will make her cheerless (bereaved, desolate), and they will strip her and eat up her flesh and utterly consume her with fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ As for the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will destroy her and strip her bare. They will devour her flesh and burn her with fire

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And the ten horns that you saw on the beast, these shall hate the woman who fornicates, and they shall make her desolate and naked, and they shall chew her flesh, and they shall burn her completely with fire.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And the ten horns which thou sawest in the beast: these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her with fire.

Revelation 17:16 Cross References

Job 31:31

if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’—

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall.

Daniel 7:5

Another beast appeared, a second one, that looked like a bear. It was raised up on one side, had three tusks in its mouth among its teeth, and was told, “Arise, devour many bodies!”

Leviticus 21:9

When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution, she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death.

Revelation 12:3

Then another portent appeared in heaven: a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns and seven diadems on his heads.

Revelation 16:12

The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great River Euphrates, and its water was dried up in order to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Revelation 17:10

of whom five have fallen, one is living, and the other has not yet come, and when he comes he must remain only a little while.

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.”

Revelation 18:8

therefore her plagues will come in a single day— pestilence and mourning and famine— and she will be burned with fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Revelation 19:18

to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of the mighty, the flesh of horses and their riders—flesh of all, both free and slave, both small and great.”