Revelation 17:7-8 And the messenger said unto me––Wherefore wast thou astonished? I, will tell thee the secret of the woman, and of the wild–beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ And the messenger said unto me––Wherefore wast thou astonished? I, will tell thee the secret of the woman, and of the wild–beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns. ⁸ The wild–beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss, and into, destruction, goeth away. And they who are dwelling upon the earth whose name is not written upon the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished, when they see the wild–beast, because it was, and is not, and shall be present.