They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and another has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while.
Then I was told, “Yoʋ must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.”
He exercised all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and made the earth and those who dwell in it worship the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed.
One of the beast's heads appeared to be mortally wounded. But its mortal wound had been healed, and the whole world was amazed and followed the beast.
The beast that was and is not, is an eighth king. Yet he is one of the seven and is on his way to destruction.
The beast and the ten horns yoʋ saw will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.