Saying:

"What city, like the great city!"

And they cast dust upon their heads;

And cried aloud, weeping, and mourning;

Saying:

"Wo! Wo! the great city!

"Wherein all who had ships upon the sea waxed rich,

"By her costliness:

"For in one hour hath she been made desolate!"

Rejoice over her thou Heaven!

And ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets !

For God hath, for her crimes against you, passed sentence upon her!

And a mighty angel took up a stone like a huge millstone, and cast it into the sea; saying:

"Thus with violence shall be thrown down Babylon the great city, and shall be found no more;

"And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and fluteplayers, and trumpeters, shall be heard in

thee no more;

"And any artificer of any ingenious art, shall be found in thee no more;

"And the sound of a millstone, shall be heard in thee no

more;

"And the light of a lamp, shall be seen in thee no more; "And the voice of bridegroom and bride, shall be heard in thee no more;

"For thy merchants were great ones of the earth; "For by thy sorceries were deceived all the nations: "And in her the blood of prophets and saints hath been found;

"And of all those who were slain upon the earth."

And, after these things, I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying:

"HALLELUJAH!

"The salvation, and the glory, and the honour,

"And the power, be unto the Lord our God!
"For true and righteous are his judgments;
"For he hath judged the great harlot,

"Who corrupted the earth with her whoredom : "And he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."

And, a second time, they said:

"HALLELUJAH !"

And her smoke ascendeth for ever and ever!