The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Mystery

For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.

The mother

And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning,

for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

General references

Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.