So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filth of her fornication.
They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning aloud, “Woe, woe, the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich from her valuable merchandise! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.