It was you, O king, for you have become great and strong. For your greatness has grown and reaches to the heaven, and your rule is to the end of the earth.
The king answered and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?
And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and being adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominations and unclean things of her fornication.