Revelation

大淫妇和兽

1拿着七碗的七位天使中，有一位前来对我说：「你到这里来，我将坐在众水上的大淫妇所要受的刑罚指给你看。

2地上的君王与她行淫，住在地上的人喝醉了她淫乱的酒。」

3我被圣灵感动，天使带我到旷野去，我就看见一个女人骑在朱红色的兽上；那兽有七头十角，遍体有亵渎的名号。

4那女人穿着紫色和朱红色的衣服，用金子、宝石、珍珠为妆饰；手拿金杯，杯中盛满了可憎之物，就是她淫乱的污秽。

5在她额上有名写着说：「奥秘哉！大巴比伦，作世上的淫妇和一切可憎之物的母。」

6我又看见那女人喝醉了圣徒的血和为耶稣作见证之人的血。 我看见她，就大大地希奇。

7天使对我说：「你为什么希奇呢？我要将这女人和驮着她的那七头十角兽的奥秘告诉你。

8你所看见的兽，先前有，如今没有，将要从无底坑里上来，又要归于沉沦。凡住在地上、名字从创世以来没有记在生命册上的，见先前有、如今没有、以后再有的兽，就必希奇。

9智慧的心在此可以思想。那七头就是女人所坐的七座山，

10又是七位王；五位已经倾倒了，一位还在，一位还没有来到；他来的时候，必须暂时存留。

11那先前有如今没有的兽，就是第八位；他也和那七位同列，并且归于沉沦。

12你所看见的那十角就是十王；他们还没有得国，但他们一时之间要和兽同得权柄，与王一样。

13他们同心合意将自己的能力、权柄给那兽。

14他们与羔羊争战，羔羊必胜过他们，因为羔羊是万主之主、万王之王。同着羔羊的，就是蒙召、被选、有忠心的，也必得胜。」

15天使又对我说：「你所看见那淫妇坐的众水，就是多民、多人、多国、多方。

16你所看见的那十角与兽必恨这淫妇，使她冷落赤身，又要吃她的肉，用火将她烧尽。

17因为 神使诸王同心合意，遵行他的旨意，把自己的国给那兽，直等到 神的话都应验了。

18你所看见的那女人就是管辖地上众王的大城。」

1One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgement of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

2with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

3He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-coloured beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

4The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

5And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

6I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

7The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

8The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

9Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.

10They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, and the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.

11The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.

12The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

13These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

14These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

15He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

16The ten horns which you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute, will make her desolate, will strip her naked, will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

17For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

18The woman whom you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”