Revelation 17:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ Then he carried me away in the spirit^[a] into the wilderness, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns and was covered with blasphemous names. ⁴ The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls. In her hand she held a gold cup filled with accursed things and the impurities of her harlotry.

⁵ On her forehead was written a mysterious name: “Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of every abomination on the earth.”