American Standard Version of 1901
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{Or, Folly}The foolish woman is clamorous;She is {Hebrew: simplicity.}simple, and knoweth nothing.
And she sitteth at the door of her house,On a seat in the high places of the city,
To call to them that pass by,Who go right on their ways:
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither;And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Stolen waters are sweet,And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
But he knoweth not that {Or, the shades Hebrew: Rephaim.}the dead are there;That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
To deliver thee from the strange woman,Even from the foreigner that {Hebrew: maketh smooth her words.}flattereth with her words;
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey,And her mouth is smoother than oil:
That they may keep thee from the strange woman,From the foreigner that {Hebrew: maketh smooth her words.}flattereth with her words.
and upon her forehead a name written, {Or, a mystery, Babylon the Great}MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed {Or, luxurious}wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.
Here is the {Or, meaning}mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:
holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.
And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern,And running waters out of thine own well.
of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do not more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.
If thou shalt hear tell {Or, in}concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,
For {Or, she sinketh down unto death, which is her house}her house inclineth unto death,And her paths unto {Or, the shades Hebrew: Rephaim.}the dead;
Her house is the way to Sheol,Going down to the chambers of death.
Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide {Some ancient authorities omit is the gate.}is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.
{Many ancient authorities read How narrow is the gate &c.}For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.