Revelation 12:12–13:1

¹²Therefore ^vrejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! ^wWoe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, ^xbecause he knows that he has a short time.”

The Woman Persecuted

¹³Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted ^ythe woman who gave birth to the male Child. ^14zBut the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, ^athat she might fly ^binto the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished ^cfor a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. ¹⁵So the serpent ^dspewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. ¹⁶But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. ¹⁷And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus ³Christ.

The Beast from the Sea

13Then ¹I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw ^aa beast rising up out of the sea, ^bhaving ²seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a ^cblasphemous name.