Lo, I will lay her on a sickbed, and bring her paramours into sore distress, if they do not repent of her practices;

But no one was fit, either in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth, to open the scroll or look into it.

So I began to weep bitterly because no one had been found fit to open the scroll or look into it;

Then I noticed a Lamb standing in the midst of the throne and the four living Creatures and the Presbyters; it seemed to have been slain, but it had seven horns and seven eyes (they are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth),

The second angel blew, and what looked like a huge mountain on fire was hurled into the sea; a third of the sea turned blood,

They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose.

So the angel swung his sickle on the earth and culled the clusters from the Vine of earth, flinging the grapes into the great winepress of God's wrath;

for God has put it into their hearts to execute his purpose, by having one mind and by conferring their royal power upon the Beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

Then a strong angel lifted a boulder like a huge millstone and flung it into the sea, crying, "So shall the great city, Babylon, be hurled down, hurtling, and never be seen any more:

But the Beast was seized, together with the false Prophet who had performed in his presence the miracles by means of which he seduced those who received the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue; both of them were flung alive into the lake of fire that blazes with brimstone,

flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed ??after which he has to be released for a little while.

and their seducer, the devil, was flung into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the false Prophet also lie, to be tortured day and night for ever and ever.

Then Death and Hades were flung into the lake of fire,

and whoever was not found enrolled in the book of Life was flung into the lake of fire ??which is the second death, the lake of fire.

By its light will the nations walk; and into it will the kings of earth bring their glories