The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

Mystery

for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now will hinder -- till he may be out of the way,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

The mother

and weep over her, and smite themselves for her, shall the kings of the earth, who with her did commit whoredom and did revel, when they may see the smoke of her burning,

because true and righteous are His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;'

General references

Stand, I pray thee, in thy charms, And in the multitude of thy sorceries, In which thou hast laboured from thy youth, It may be thou art able to profit, It may be thou dost terrify!