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17 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls+ came and said to me: “Come, I will show you the judgment on the great prostitute who sits on many waters,+2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality,*+ and earth’s inhabitants were made drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”*+3 And he carried me away in the power of the spirit into a wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored wild beast that was full of blasphemous names and that had seven heads and ten horns.4 The woman was clothed in purple+ and scarlet, and she was adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls,+ and she had in her hand a golden cup that was full of disgusting things and the unclean things of her sexual immorality.*5 On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the Great, the mother of the prostitutes+ and of the disgusting things of the earth.”+6 And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus.+Well, on seeing her I was greatly amazed.7 So the angel said to me: “Why is it that you were amazed? I will tell you the mystery of the woman+ and of the wild beast that is carrying her and that has the seven heads and the ten horns:+8 The wild beast that you saw was, but is not, and yet is about to ascend out of the abyss,+ and it is to go off into destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth—those whose names have not been written in the scroll of life+ from the founding of the world—will be amazed when they see how the wild beast was, but is not, and yet will be present.9 “This calls for a mind* that has wisdom: The seven heads+ mean seven mountains, where the woman sits on top.10 And there are seven kings: Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet arrived; but when he does arrive, he must remain a short while.11 And the wild beast that was but is not,+ it is also an eighth king, but it springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction.12 “The ten horns that you saw mean ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they do receive authority as kings for one hour with the wild beast.13 These have one thought, so they give their power and authority to the wild beast.14 These will battle with the Lamb,+ but because he is Lord of lords and King of kings,+ the Lamb will conquer them.+ Also, those with him who are called and chosen and faithful will do so.”+15 He said to me: “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues.*+16 And the ten horns+ that you saw and the wild beast,+ these will hate the prostitute+ and will make her devastated and naked, and they will eat up her flesh and completely burn her with fire.+17 For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought,+ yes, to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast,+ until the words of God will have been accomplished.18 And the woman+ whom you saw means the great city that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth.”
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I došao je jedan od sedam anđela koji su imali sedam posuda+ i obratio mi se riječima: “Dođi, pokazat ću ti sud nad velikom bludnicom+ koja sjedi na mnogim vodama,+2 s kojom su bludničili kraljevi zemaljski,+ a oni koji žive na zemlji opijali se vinom bluda njezina!”+3 I odnio me u duhu+ u pustinju. I ugledao sam ženu kako sjedi na skerletnoj zvijeri+ punoj hulnih imena,+ koja ima sedam glava+ i deset rogova.4 Žena je bila odjevena u purpur+ i skerlet+ i ukrašena zlatom, dragim kamenjem i biserima.+ U ruci je imala zlatnu čašu+ punu gadosti+ i nečistoće bluda svojega.+5 Na čelu joj je bilo napisano ime, koje je tajna:+ “Babilon Veliki, majka bludnicama+ i gadostima zemaljskim.”+6 I vidio sam da je žena pijana od krvi+ svetih i od krvi svjedoka Isusovih.+Kad sam je ugledao, silno sam se začudio.+7 A anđeo mi je rekao: “Zašto se čudiš? Otkrit ću ti tajnu te žene+ i zvijeri sa sedam glava i deset rogova koja je nosi:+8 Zvijer koju si vidio bila je,+ ali više nije, no uskoro će izaći iz bezdana+ i biti uništena. I divit će se oni koji žive na zemlji, a kojima imena nisu zapisana u svitku života+ od postanka svijeta,+ kad vide da se zvijer koja je bila, pa je zatim nije bilo, opet pojavila.9 Za ovo treba razuma i mudrosti:+ Sedam glava+ predstavlja sedam gora+ na kojima žena sjedi.10 One predstavljaju i sedam kraljeva: pet ih je palo,+ jedan vlada,+ a drugi još nije došao,+ ali kad dođe, ostat će kratko vrijeme.+11 A zvijer koja je bila, ali više nije,+ osmi je kralj, a potječe od onih sedam i bit će uništena.12 Deset rogova koje si vidio predstavlja deset kraljeva,+ koji još nisu primili kraljevstvo, ali će na jedan sat primiti vlast kao kraljevi zajedno sa zvijeri.13 Oni imaju istu zamisao i stoga svoju moć i vlast daju zvijeri.+14 Oni će se boriti s Janjetom,+ ali Janje će ih pobijediti,+ jer je Gospodar gospodarâ i Kralj kraljeva,+ a pobijedit će ih i oni koji su s njim pozvani i izabrani i vjerni.”+15 I rekao mi je: “Vode koje si vidio, na kojima bludnica sjedi, predstavljaju puke i mnoštva i narode i jezike.+16 A deset rogova+ što si ih vidio i zvijer+ — oni će zamrziti bludnicu+ i opustošiti je i ogoliti. I pojest će meso njezino i spaliti je vatrom.+17 Jer Bog im je u srce stavio da izvrše njegovu zamisao,+ to jest da izvrše svoju zajedničku zamisao, da predaju svoje kraljevstvo zvijeri,+ dok se ne ispune riječi Božje.+18 A žena+ koju si vidio predstavlja veliki grad koji kraljuje nad kraljevima zemaljskim.”+