Revelation 17:15

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then the angel [See verses 1,7] said to me, “The waters you saw, on which the prostitute sits [See verse 1] are races, crowds, nations and language groups.

Cross References

Revelation 10:11

And they said to me [Note: The plural “they” may mean simply “it was told to me”], “You must prophesy again about many races, and nations, and language groups and kings.”

Revelation 11:9

And people from among the races and tribes and language groups and nations will gaze at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and they will not permit their bodies to be buried.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels, who had the seven bowls, came and spoke to me, saying, “Come [here]; I will show you the punishment [to fall] on the great prostitute who is situated on many bodies of waters.

Revelation 5:9

And they sang a new song [which went like this]: “You deserve to take the book and break the seals on it, for you were killed and, with your blood, you purchased people for God from every tribe and language and race and nation,