The head of this image was of fine gold, its breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication;
and the king said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.
Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine, therefore the nations went mad.
you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
PERES, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”