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

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

Mystery

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now restraineth will restrain, until he be taken out of the way.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times will come.

The mother

And the kings of the earth, who have committed lewdness and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great harlot, who corrupted the earth with her lewdness, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

General references

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