Online Bible 1995 March/ROM-1025.iso/olb/masters/texts/ylt.lzh/RE.LZH/RE

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1:1 A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew
 to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass
 quickly; and he did signify [it], having sent through his
 messenger to his servant John,
1:2 who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus
 Christ, as many things also as he did see.
1:3 Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of
 the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the
 time is nigh!
1:4 John to the seven assemblies that [are] in Asia: Grace to
 you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is
 coming, and from the Seven Spirits that are before His throne,
1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born
 out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to
 him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his
 blood,
1:6 and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to
 him [is] the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.
1:7 Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every
 eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him
 shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!
1:8 `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the
 Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'
1:9 I, John, who also [am] your brother, and fellow-partner in
 the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus
 Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the
 word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;
1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind
 me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,
1:11 `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;'
 and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the
 seven assemblies that [are] in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna,
 and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to
 Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'
1:12 And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and
 having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands,
1:13 and in the midst of the seven lamp-stands, [one] like to a
 son of man, clothed to the foot, and girt round at the breast
 with a golden girdle,
1:14 and his head and hairs white, as if white wool -- as snow,
 and his eyes as a flame of fire;
1:15 and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having
 been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,
1:16 and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his
 mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his
 countenance [is] as the sun shining in its might.
1:17 And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he
 placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I
 am the First and the Last,
1:18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am
 living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of
 the hades and of the death.
1:19 `Write the things that thou hast seen, and the things that
 are, and the things that are about to come after these things;
1:20 the secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my
 right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars
 are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven
 lamp-stands that thou hast seen are seven assemblies.
2:1 `To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These
 things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right
 hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands --
 the golden:
2:2 I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance,
 and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou
 hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not,
 and hast found them liars,
2:3 and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my
 name hast toiled, and hast not been weary.
2:4 `But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst
 leave!
2:5 remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the
 first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will
 remove thy lamp-stand from its place -- if thou mayest not
 reform;
2:6 but this thou hast, that thou dost hate the works of the
 Nicolaitans, that I also hate.
2:7 He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit
 saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming -- I will
 give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of
 the paradise of God.
2:8 `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans
 write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did
 become dead and did live;
2:9 I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty -- yet
 thou art rich -- and the evil-speaking of those saying
 themselves to be Jews, and are not, but [are] a synagogue of
 the Adversary.
2:10 `Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer;
 lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be
 tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou
 faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the
 life.
2:11 He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit
 saith to the assemblies: He who is overcoming may not be
 injured of the second death.
2:12 `And to the messenger of the assembly in Pergamos write:
 These things saith he who is having the sharp two-edged sword:
2:13 I have known thy works, and where thou dost dwell -- where
 the throne of the Adversary [is] -- and thou dost hold fast my
 name, and thou didst not deny my faith, even in the days in
 which Antipas [was] my faithful witness, who was put to death
 beside you, where the Adversary doth dwell.
2:14 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there
 those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to
 cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat
 idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;
2:15 so hast thou, even thou, those holding the teaching of the
 Nicolaitans -- which thing I hate.
2:16 `Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight
 against them with the sword of my mouth.
2:17 He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit
 saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give
 to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a
 white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one
 knew except him who is receiving [it].
2:18 `And to the messenger of the assembly of Thyatira write:
 These things saith the Son of God, who is having his eyes as a
 flame of fire, and his feet like to fine brass;
2:19 I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and
 faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last [are]
 more than the first.
2:20 `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost
 suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess,
 to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom,
 and idol-sacrifices to eat;
2:21 and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her
 whoredom, and she did not reform;
2:22 lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing
 adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not
 repent of their works,
2:23 and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all
 the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts;
 and I will give to you -- to each -- according to your works.
2:24 `And to you I say, and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as
 many as have not this teaching, and who did not know the depths
 of the Adversary, as they say; I will not put upon you other
 burden;
2:25 but that which ye have -- hold ye, till I may come;
2:26 and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end
 my works, I will give to him authority over the nations,
2:27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron -- as the vessels
 of the potter they shall be broken -- as I also have received
 from my Father;
2:28 and I will give to him the morning star.
2:29 He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit
 saith to the assemblies.
3:1 And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These
 things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the
 seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the
 name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;
3:2 become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that
 are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled
 before God.
3:3 `Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be
 keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will
 come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I
 will come upon thee.
3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile
 their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because
 they are worthy.
3:5 He who is overcoming -- this one -- shall be arrayed in
 white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the
 scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my
 Father, and before His messengers.
3:6 He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit
 saith to the assemblies.
3:7 `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write:
 These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is
 having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth
 shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!
3:8 I have known thy works; lo, I have set before thee a door --
 opened, and no one is able to shut it, because thou hast a
 little power, and didst keep my word, and didst not deny my
 name;
3:9 lo, I make of the synagogue of the Adversary those saying
 themselves to be Jews, and are not, but do lie; lo, I will make
 them that they may come and bow before thy feet, and may know
 that I loved thee.
3:10 `Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also
 will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come
 upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.
3:11 Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast,
 that no one may receive thy crown.
3:12 He who is overcoming -- I will make him a pillar in the
 sanctuary of my God, and without he may not go any more, and I
 will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the
 city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that doth come down out of
 the heaven from my God -- also my new name.
3:13 He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit
 saith to the assemblies.
3:14 `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans
 write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful
 and true -- the chief of the creation of God;
3:15 I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot;
 I would thou wert cold or hot.
3:16 So -- because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,
 I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth;
3:17 because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and
 have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the
 wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,
3:18 I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou
 mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed,
 and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with
 eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
3:19 `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous,
 then, and reform;
3:20 lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may
 hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him,
 and will sup with him, and he with me.
3:21 He who is overcoming -- I will give to him to sit with me
 in my throne, as I also did overcome and did sit down with my
 Father in His throne.
3:22 He who is having an ear -- let him hear what the Spirit
 saith to the assemblies.'
4:1 After these things I saw, and lo, a door opened in the
 heaven, and the first voice that I heard [is] as of a trumpet
 speaking with me, saying, `Come up hither, and I will shew thee
 what it behoveth to come to pass after these things;'
4:2 and immediately I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne was
 set in the heaven, and upon the throne is [one] sitting,
4:3 and He who is sitting was in sight like a stone, jasper and
 sardine: and a rainbow was round the throne in sight like an
 emerald.
4:4 And around the throne [are] thrones twenty and four, and
 upon the thrones I saw the twenty and four elders sitting,
 clothed in white garments, and they had upon their heads crowns
 of gold;
4:5 and out of the throne proceed do lightnings, and thunders,
 and voices; and seven lamps of fire are burning before the
 throne, which are the Seven Spirits of God,
4:6 and before the throne [is] a sea of glass like to crystal,
 and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, [are]
 four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind;
4:7 and the first living creature [is] like a lion, and the
 second living creature [is] like a calf, and the third living
 creature hath the face as a man, and the fourth living creature
 [is] like an eagle flying.
4:8 And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had
 six wings, around and within [are] full of eyes, and rest they
 have not day and night, saying, `Holy, holy, holy, Lord God
 Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'
4:9 and when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and
 thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to
 the ages of the ages,
4:10 fall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is
 sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to
 the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the
 throne, saying,
4:11 `Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the
 honour, and the power, because Thou -- Thou didst create the
 all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were
 created.'
5:1 And I saw upon the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the
 throne a scroll, written within and on the back, sealed with
 seven seals;
5:2 and I saw a strong messenger crying with a great voice, `Who
 is worthy to open the scroll and to loose the seals of it?'
5:3 and no one was able in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor
 under the earth, to open the scroll, nor to behold it.
5:4 And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to
 open and to read the scroll, nor to behold it,
5:5 and one of the elders saith to me, `Weep not; lo, overcome
 did the Lion, who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David,
 to open the scroll, and to loose the seven seals of it;
5:6 and I saw, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the
 four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb
 hath stood as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven
 eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God, which are sent to all
 the earth,
5:7 and he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him
 who is sitting upon the throne.
5:8 And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and
 the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one
 harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers
 of the saints,
5:9 and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take
 the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast
 slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every
 tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
5:10 and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we
 shall reign upon the earth.'
5:11 And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round
 the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders -- and the
 number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of
 thousands --
5:12 saying with a great voice, `Worthy is the Lamb that was
 slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and
 strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!'
5:13 and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth,
 and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and
 the all things in them, heard I saying, `To Him who is sitting
 upon the throne, and to the Lamb, [is] the blessing, and the
 honour, and the glory, and the might -- to the ages of the
 ages!'
5:14 and the four living creatures said, `Amen!' and the
 twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is
 living to the ages of the ages.
6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard
 one of the four living creatures saying, as it were a voice of
 thunder, `Come and behold!'
6:2 and I saw, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon
 it is having a bow, and there was given to him a crown, and he
 went forth overcoming, and that he may overcome.
6:3 And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second
 living creature saying, `Come and behold!'
6:4 and there went forth another horse -- red, and to him who is
 sitting upon it, there was given to him to take the peace from
 the land, and that one another they may slay, and there was
 given to him a great sword.
6:5 And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living
 creature saying, `Come and behold!' and I saw, and lo, a black
 horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a balance in his
 hand,
6:6 and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living
 creatures saying, `A measure of wheat for a denary, and three
 measures of barley for a denary,' and `The oil and the wine
 thou mayest not injure.'
6:7 And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the
 fourth living creature saying, `Come and behold!'
6:8 and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon
 him -- his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and
 there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth
 part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death,
 and by the beasts of the land.
6:9 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the
 souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because
 of the testimony that they held,
6:10 and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till
 when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and
 take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?'
6:11 and there was given to each one white robes, and it was
 said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time,
 till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their
 brethren, who are about to be killed -- even as they.
6:12 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great
 earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair,
 and the moon became as blood,
6:13 and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth -- as a
 fig-tree doth cast her winter figs, by a great wind being
 shaken --
6:14 and heaven departed as a scroll rolled up, and every
 mountain and island -- out of their places they were moved;
6:15 and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the
 rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every
 servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in
 the rocks of the mountains,
6:16 and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall upon
 us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the
 throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,'
6:17 because come did the great day of His anger, and who is
 able to stand?
7:1 And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon
 the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the
 land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the
 sea, nor upon any tree;
7:2 and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the
 sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a
 great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to
 injure the land and the sea, saying,
7:3 `Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we
 may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'
7:4 And I heard the number of those sealed, (one hundred and forty four thousands were
 sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel):
7:5 of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe
 of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve
 thousand were sealed;
7:6 of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe
 of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh
 twelve thousand were sealed;
7:7 of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe
 of Levi twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve
 thousand were sealed;
7:8 of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed; of the
 tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of
 Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.
7:9 After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which
 to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and
 peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before
 the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,
7:10 and crying with a great voice, saying, `The salvation [is]
 to Him who is sitting upon the throne -- to our God, and to the
 Lamb!'
7:11 And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the
 elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their
 face, and bowed before God,
7:12 saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom,
 and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the
 strength, [are] to our God -- to the ages of the ages! Amen!'
7:13 And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who
 have been arrayed with the white robes -- who are they, and
 whence came they?'
7:14 and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said
 to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great
 tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their
 robes white in the blood of the Lamb;
7:15 because of this are they before the throne of God, and they
 do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is
 sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them;
7:16 they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon
 them, nor any heat,
7:17 because the Lamb that [is] in the midst of the throne shall
 feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters,
 and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'
8:1 And when he openeth the seventh seal, there came silence in
 the heaven about half-an-hour,
8:2 and I saw the seven messengers who before God have stood,
 and there were given to them seven trumpets,
8:3 and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar,
 having a golden censer, and there was given to him much
 perfume, that he may give [it] to the prayers of all the saints
 upon the golden altar that [is] before the throne,
8:4 and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of
 the saints out of the hand of the messenger, before God;
8:5 and the messenger took the censer, and did fill it out of
 the fire of the altar, and did cast [it] to the earth, and
 there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an
 earthquake.
8:6 And the seven messengers who are having the seven trumpets
 did prepare themselves that they may sound;
8:7 and the first messenger did sound, and there came hail and
 fire, mingled with blood, and it was cast to the land, and the
 third of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was
 burnt up.
8:8 And the second messenger did sound, and as it were a great
 mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third
 of the sea became blood,
8:9 and die did the third of the creatures that [are] in the
 sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were
 destroyed.
8:10 And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of
 the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall
 upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,
8:11 and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third
 of the waters doth become wormwood, and many of the men did die
 of the waters, because they were made bitter.
8:12 And the fourth messenger did sound, and smitten was the
 third of the sun, and the third of the moon, and the third of
 the stars, that darkened may be the third of them, and that the
 day may not shine -- the third of it, and the night in like
 manner.
8:13 And I saw, and I heard one messenger, flying in the
 mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, `Woe, woe, woe, to those
 dwelling upon the land from the rest of the voices of the
 trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound.'
9:1 And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of
 the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to
 it the key of the pit of the abyss,
9:2 and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a
 smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened
 was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.
9:3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and
 there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth
 have authority,
9:4 and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass
 of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men
 only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,
9:5 and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but
 that they may be tormented five months, and their torment [is]
 as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;
9:6 and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall
 not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall
 flee from them.
9:7 And the likenesses of the locusts [are] like to horses made
 ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and
 their faces as faces of men,
9:8 and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as
 [those] of lions,
9:9 and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the
 noise of their wings [is] as the noise of chariots of many
 horses running to battle;
9:10 and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in
 their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five
 months;
9:11 and they have over them a king -- the messenger of the
 abyss -- a name [is] to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the
 Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.
9:12 The first woe did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes
 after these things.
9:13 And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out
 of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,
9:14 saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose
 the four messengers who are bound at the great river
 Euphrates;'
9:15 and loosed were the four messengers, who have been made
 ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may
 kill the third of men;
9:16 and the number of the forces of the horsemen [is] two
 myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them.
9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting
 upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and
 brimstone; and the heads of the horses [are] as heads of lions,
 and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and
 brimstone;
9:18 by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire,
 and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding
 out of their mouth,
9:19 for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their
 tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and
 with them they do injure;
9:20 and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues,
 neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may
 not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those
 of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of
 wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,
9:21 yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their
 sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.
10:1 And I saw another strong messenger coming down out of the
 heaven, arrayed with a cloud, and a rainbow upon the head, and
 his face as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire,
10:2 and he had in his hand a little scroll opened, and he did
 place his right foot upon the sea, and the left upon the land,
10:3 and he cried with a great voice, as a lion doth roar, and
 when he cried, speak out did the seven thunders their voices;
10:4 and when the seven thunders spake their voices, I was about
 to write, and I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me,
 `Seal the things that the seven thunders spake,' and, `Thou
 mayest not write these things.'
10:5 And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and
 upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven,
10:6 and did swear in Him who doth live to the ages of the ages,
 who did create the heaven and the things in it, and the land
 and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it -- that
 time shall not be yet,
10:7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh messenger, when
 he may be about to sound, and the secret of God may be
 finished, as He did declare to His own servants, to the
 prophets.
10:8 And the voice that I heard out of the heaven is again
 speaking with me, and saying, `Go, take the little scroll that
 is open in the hand of the messenger who hath been standing
 upon the sea, and upon the land:'
10:9 and I went away unto the messenger, saying to him, `Give me
 the little scroll;' and he saith to me, `Take, and eat it up,
 and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall
 be sweet -- as honey.'
10:10 And I took the little scroll out of the hand of the
 messenger, and did eat it up, and it was in my mouth as honey
 -- sweet, and when I did eat it -- my belly was made bitter;
10:11 and he saith to me, `It behoveth thee again to prophesy
 about peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings -- many.'
11:1 And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the
 messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of
 God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it;
11:2 and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and
 thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the
 nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two
 months;
11:3 and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall
 prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with
 sackcloth;
11:4 these are the two olive [trees], and the two lamp-stands
 that before the God of the earth do stand;
11:5 and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed
 out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any
 one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed.
11:6 These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not
 rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they
 have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the
 land with every plague, as often as they may will.
11:7 `And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that
 is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and
 overcome them, and kill them,
11:8 and their dead bodies [are] upon the broad-place of the
 great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where
 also our Lord was crucified,)
11:9 and they shall behold -- they of the peoples, and tribes,
 and tongues, and nations -- their dead bodies three days and a
 half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put
 into tombs,
11:10 and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them,
 and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another,
 because these -- the two prophets -- did torment those dwelling
 upon the land.'
11:11 And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from
 God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and
 great fear fell upon those beholding them,
11:12 and they heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to
 them, `Come up hither;' and they went up to the heaven in the
 cloud, and their enemies beheld them;
11:13 and in that hour came a great earthquake, and the tenth of
 the city did fall, and killed in the earthquake were names of
 men -- seven thousands, and the rest became affrighted, and
 they gave glory to the God of the heaven.
11:14 The second woe did go forth, lo, the third woe doth come
 quickly.
11:15 And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great
 voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did
 become [those] of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall
 reign to the ages of the ages!'
11:16 and the twenty and four elders, who before God are sitting
 upon their thrones, did fall upon their faces, and did bow
 before God,
11:17 saying, `We give thanks to Thee, O Lord God, the Almighty,
 who art, and who wast, and who art coming, because Thou hast
 taken Thy great power and didst reign;
11:18 and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and
 the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to
 Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those
 fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to
 destroy those who are destroying the land.'
11:19 And opened was the sanctuary of God in the heaven, and
 there was seen the ark of His covenant in His sanctuary, and
 there did come lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an
 earthquake, and great hail.
12:1 And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed
 with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a
 crown of twelve stars,
12:2 and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and
 pained to bring forth.
12:3 And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a
 great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon
 his head seven diadems,
12:4 and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the
 heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did
 stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when
 she may bring forth, her child he may devour;
12:5 and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule
 all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her
 child unto God and His throne,
12:6 and the woman did flee to the wilderness, where she hath a
 place made ready from God, that there they may nourish her --
 days a thousand, two hundred, sixty.
12:7 And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his
 messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war,
 and his messengers,
12:8 and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any
 more in the heaven;
12:9 and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who
 is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray
 the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his
 messengers were cast forth with him.
12:10 And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did
 come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God,
 and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the
 accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God
 day and night;
12:11 and they did overcome him because of the blood of the
 Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did
 not love their life -- unto death;
12:12 because of this be glad, ye heavens, and those in them who
 do tabernacle; woe to those inhabiting the land and the sea,
 because the Devil did go down unto you, having great wrath,
 having known that he hath little time.'
12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the
 earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male,
12:14 and there were given to the woman two wings of the great
 eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where
 she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the
 face of the serpent;
12:15 and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his
 mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried
 away by the river,
12:16 and the land did help the woman, and the land did open its
 mouth and did swallow up the river, that the dragon did cast
 forth out of his mouth;
12:17 and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away
 to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the
 commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.
13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the
 sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and
 upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil
 speaking,
13:2 and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its
 feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and
 the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great
 authority.
13:3 And I saw one of its heads as slain to death, and its
 deadly stroke was healed, and all the earth did wonder after
 the beast,
13:4 and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority
 to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, `Who
 [is] like to the beast? who is able to war with it?'
13:5 And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things,
 and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to
 make war forty-two months,
13:6 and it did open its mouth for evil-speaking toward God, to
 speak evil of His name, and of His tabernacle, and of those who
 in the heaven tabernacle,
13:7 and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and
 to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over
 every tribe, and tongue, and nation.
13:8 And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land,
 whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of
 the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;
13:9 if any one hath an ear -- let him hear:
13:10 if any one a captivity doth gather, into captivity he doth
 go away; if any one by sword doth kill, it behoveth him by
 sword to be killed; here is the endurance and the faith of the
 saints.
13:11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it
 had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon,
13:12 and all the authority of the first beast doth it do before
 it, and it maketh the land and those dwelling in it that they
 shall bow before the first beast, whose deadly stroke was
 healed,
13:13 and it doth great signs, that fire also it may make to
 come down from the heaven to the earth before men,
13:14 and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because
 of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying
 to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast
 that hath the stroke of the sword and did live,
13:15 and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of
 the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and
 [that] it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image
 of the beast, that they may be killed.
13:16 And it maketh all, the small, and the great, and the rich,
 and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may
 give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their
 foreheads,
13:17 and that no one may be able to buy, or to sell, except he
 who is having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number
 of his name.
13:18 Here is the wisdom! He who is having the understanding,
 let him count the number of the beast, for the number of a man
 it is, and its number [is] six hundred and sixty six.
14:1 And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion,
 and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name
 of his Father written upon their foreheads;
14:2 and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many
 waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of
 harpers harping with their harps,
14:3 and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne,
 and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no
 one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four
 thousands, who have been bought from the earth;
14:4 these are they who with women were not defiled, for they
 are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb
 whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men -- a
 first-fruit to God and to the Lamb --
14:5 and in their mouth there was not found guile, for
 unblemished are they before the throne of God.
14:6 And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having
 good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the
 earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,
14:7 saying in a great voice, `Fear ye God, and give to Him
 glory, because come did the hour of His judgment, and bow ye
 before Him who did make the heaven, and the land, and sea, and
 fountains of waters.'
14:8 And another messenger did follow, saying, `Fall, fall, did
 Babylon, the great city, because of the wine of the wrath of
 her whoredom she hath given to all nations to drink.'
14:9 And a third messenger did follow them, saying in a great
 voice, `If any one the beast doth bow before, and his image,
 and doth receive a mark upon his forehead, or upon his hand,
14:10 he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, that
 hath been mingled unmixed in the cup of His anger, and he shall
 be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy messengers,
 and before the Lamb,
14:11 and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages;
 and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the
 beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his
 name.
14:12 Here is endurance of the saints: here [are] those keeping
 the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'
14:13 And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me,
 `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this
 time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their
 labours -- and their works do follow them!'
14:14 And I saw, and lo, a white cloud, and upon the cloud [one]
 sitting like to a son of man, having upon his head a golden
 crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle;
14:15 and another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary
 crying in a great voice to him who is sitting upon the cloud,
 `Send forth thy sickle and reap, because come to thee hath the
 hour of reaping, because ripe hath been the harvest of the
 earth;'
14:16 and he who is sitting upon the cloud did put forth his
 sickle upon the earth, and the earth was reaped.
14:17 And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary
 that [is] in the heaven, having -- he also -- a sharp sickle,
14:18 and another messenger did come forth out from the altar,
 having authority over the fire, and he called with a great cry
 to him having the sharp sickle, saying, `Send forth thy sharp
 sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth,
 because come to perfection have her grapes;'
14:19 and the messenger did put forth his sickle to the earth,
 and did gather the vine of the earth, and did cast [it] to the
 great wine-press of the wrath of God;
14:20 and trodden was the wine-press outside of the city, and
 blood did come forth out of the wine-press -- unto the bridles
 of the horses, a thousand, six hundred furlongs.
15:1 And I saw another sign in the heaven, great and wonderful,
 seven messengers having the seven last plagues, because in
 these was completed the wrath of God,
15:2 and I saw as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those
 who do gain the victory over the beast, and his image, and his
 mark, [and] the number of his name, standing by the sea of the
 glass, having harps of God,
15:3 and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the
 song of the Lamb, saying, `Great and wonderful [are] Thy works,
 O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true [are] Thy ways, O
 King of saints,
15:4 who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name?
 because Thou alone [art] kind, because all the nations shall
 come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were
 manifested.'
15:5 And after these things I saw, and lo, opened was the
 sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony in the heaven;
15:6 and come forth did the seven messengers having the seven
 plagues, out of the sanctuary, clothed in linen, pure and
 shining, and girded round the breasts with golden girdles:
15:7 and one of the four living creatures did give to the seven
 messengers seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who
 is living to the ages of the ages;
15:8 and filled was the sanctuary with smoke from the glory of
 God, and from His power, and no one was able to enter into the
 sanctuary till the seven plagues of the seven messengers may
 be finished.
16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the sanctuary saying to
 the seven messengers, `Go away, and pour out the vials of the
 wrath of God to the earth;'
16:2 and the first did go away, and did pour out his vial upon
 the land, and there came a sore -- bad and grievous -- to men,
 those having the mark of the beast, and those bowing to his
 image.
16:3 And the second messenger did pour out his vial to the sea,
 and there came blood as of [one] dead, and every living soul
 died in the sea.
16:4 And the third messenger did pour out his vial to the
 rivers, and to the fountains of the waters, and there came
 blood,
16:5 and I heard the messenger of the waters, saying,
 `righteous, O Lord, art Thou, who art, and who wast, and who
 shalt be, because these things Thou didst judge,
16:6 because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and
 blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'
16:7 and I heard another out of the altar, saying, `Yes, Lord
 God, the Almighty, true and righteous [are] Thy judgments.'
16:8 And the fourth messenger did pour out his vial upon the
 sun, and there was given to him to scorch men with fire,
16:9 and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak
 evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these
 plagues, and they did not reform -- to give to Him glory.
16:10 And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the
 throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and
 they were gnawing their tongues from the pain,
16:11 and they did speak evil of the God of the heaven, from
 their pains, and from their sores, and they did not reform from
 their works.
16:12 And the sixth messenger did pour out his vial upon the
 great river, the Euphrates, and dried up was its water, that
 the way of the kings who are from the rising of the sun may be
 made ready;
16:13 and I saw [come] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out
 of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false
 prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs --
16:14 for they are spirits of demons, doing signs -- which go
 forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to
 bring them together to the battle of that great day of God the
 Almighty; --
16:15 `lo, I do come as a thief; happy [is] he who is watching,
 and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they
 may see his unseemliness,' --
16:16 and they did bring them together to the place that is
 called in Hebrew Armageddon.
16:17 And the seventh messenger did pour out his vial to the
 air, and there came forth a great voice from the sanctuary of
 the heaven, from the throne, saying, `It hath come!'
16:18 and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and a
 great earthquake came, such as came not since men came upon
 the earth, so mighty an earthquake -- so great!
16:19 And it came -- the great city -- into three parts, and the
 cities of the nations did fall, and Babylon the great was
 remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of
 the wrath of His anger,
16:20 and every island did flee away, and mountains were not
 found,
16:21 and great hail (as of talent weight) doth come down out of
 the heaven upon men, and men did speak evil of God because of
 the plague of the hail, because its plague is very great.
17:1 And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having
 the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I
 will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is
 sitting upon the many waters,
17:2 with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and
 made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting
 the earth;'
17:3 and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I
 saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of
 names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,
17:4 and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour,
 and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a
 golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of
 her whoredom,
17:5 and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon
 the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of
 the earth.'
17:6 And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints,
 and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder
 -- having seen her -- with great wonder;
17:7 and the messenger said to me, `Wherefore didst thou wonder?
 I -- I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast
 that [is] carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten
 horns.
17:8 `The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and
 it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to
 destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth,
 whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life
 from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was,
 and is not, although it is.
17:9 `Here [is] the mind that is having wisdom; the seven heads
 are seven mountains, upon which the woman doth sit,
17:10 and there are seven kings, the five did fall, and the one
 is, the other did not yet come, and when he may come, it
 behoveth him to remain a little time;
17:11 and the beast that was, and is not, he also is eighth, and
 out of the seven he is, and to destruction he doth go away.
17:12 `And the ten horns that thou sawest, are ten kings, who a
 kingdom did not yet receive, but authority as kings the same
 hour do receive with the beast,
17:13 these have one mind, and their own power and authority to
 the beast they shall give over;
17:14 these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall
 overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings,
 and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'
17:15 And he saith to me, `The waters that thou didst see, where
 the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations,
 and tongues;'
17:16 and the ten horns that thou didst see upon the beast,
 these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and
 naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire,
17:17 for God did give into their hearts to do its mind, and to
 make one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast till the
 sayings of God may be complete,
17:18 and the woman that thou didst see is the great city that
 is having reign over the kings of the land.'
18:1 And after these things I saw another messenger coming down
 out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was
 lightened from his glory,
18:2 and he did cry in might -- a great voice, saying, `Fall,
 fall did Babylon the great, and she became a habitation of
 demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every
 unclean and hateful bird,
18:3 because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all
 the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did
 commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of
 her revel were made rich.
18:4 And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come
 forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her
 sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,
18:5 because her sins did follow -- unto the heaven, and God did
 remember her unrighteousness.
18:6 Render to her as also she did render to you, and double to
 her doubles according to her works; in the cup that she did
 mingle mingle to her double.
18:7 `As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much
 torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith,
 I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not
 see;
18:8 because of this, in one day, shall come her plagues, death,
 and sorrow, and famine; and in fire she shall be utterly
 burned, because strong [is] the Lord God who is judging her;
18:9 and weep over her, and smite themselves for her, shall the
 kings of the earth, who with her did commit whoredom and did
 revel, when they may see the smoke of her burning,
18:10 from afar having stood because of the fear of her torment,
 saying, Woe, woe, the great city! Babylon, the strong city!
 because in one hour did come thy judgment.
18:11 `And the merchants of the earth shall weep and sorrow over
 her, because their lading no one doth buy any more;
18:12 lading of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl,
 and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all
 thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most
 precious wood, and brass, and iron, and marble,
18:13 and cinnamon, and odours, and ointment, and frankincense,
 and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and
 sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies and souls
 of men.
18:14 `And the fruits of the desire of thy soul did go away from
 thee, and all things -- the dainty and the bright -- did go
 away from thee, and no more at all mayest thou find them.
18:15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her,
 far off shall stand because of the fear of her torment,
 weeping, and sorrowing,
18:16 and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, that was arrayed with
 fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and gilded in gold, and
 precious stone, and pearls -- because in one hour so much
 riches were made waste!
18:17 `And every shipmaster, and all the company upon the ships,
 and sailors, and as many as work the sea, far off stood,
18:18 and were crying, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying,
 What [city is] like to the great city?
18:19 and they did cast dust upon their heads, and were crying
 out, weeping and sorrowing, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! in
 which were made rich all having ships in the sea, out of her
 costliness -- for in one hour was she made waste.
18:20 `Be glad over her, O heaven, and ye holy apostles and
 prophets, because God did judge your judgment of her!'
18:21 And one strong messenger did take up a stone as a great
 millstone, and did cast [it] to the sea, saying, `Thus with
 violence shall Babylon be cast, the great city, and may not be
 found any more at all;
18:22 and voice of harpers, and musicians, and pipers, and
 trumpeters, may not be heard at all in thee any more; and any
 artisan of any art may not be found at all in thee any more;
 and noise of a millstone may not be heard at all in thee any
 more;
18:23 and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more;
 and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in
 thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the
 earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,
18:24 and in her blood of prophets and of saints was found, and
 of all those who have been slain on the earth.'
19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of a great
 multitude in the heaven, saying, `Alleluia! the salvation, and
 the glory, and the honour, and the power, [is] to the Lord our
 God;
19:2 because true and righteous [are] His judgments, because He
 did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her
 whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her
 hand;'
19:3 and a second time they said, `Alleluia;' and her smoke doth
 come up -- to the ages of the ages!
19:4 And fall down did the elders -- the twenty and four -- and
 the four living creatures, and they did bow before God who is
 sitting upon the throne, saying, `Amen, Alleluia.'
19:5 And a voice out of the throne did come forth, saying,
 `Praise our God, all ye His servants, and those fearing Him,
 both the small and the great;'
19:6 and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the
 voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings,
 saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God -- the
 Almighty!
19:7 may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him,
 because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did
 make herself ready;
19:8 and there was given to her that she may be arrayed with
 fine linen, pure and shining, for the fine linen is the
 righteous acts of the saints.'
19:9 And he saith to me, `Write: Happy [are] they who to the
 supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he
 saith to me, `These [are] the true words of God;'
19:10 and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he
 saith to me, `See -- not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of
 thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before
 God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'
19:11 And I saw the heaven having been opened, and lo, a white
 horse, and he who is sitting upon it is called Faithful and
 True, and in righteousness doth he judge and war,
19:12 and his eyes [are] as a flame of fire, and upon his head
 [are] many diadems -- having a name written that no one hath
 known, except himself,
19:13 and he is arrayed with a garment covered with blood, and
 his name is called, The Word of God.
19:14 And the armies in the heaven were following him upon white
 horses, clothed in fine linen -- white and pure;
19:15 and out of his mouth doth proceed a sharp sword, that with
 it he may smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod
 of iron, and he doth tread the press of the wine of the wrath
 and the anger of God the Almighty,
19:16 and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name
 written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'
19:17 And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried,
 a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in
 mid-heaven, `Come and be gathered together to the supper of the
 great God,
19:18 that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiefs of
 thousands, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses, and of
 those sitting on them, and the flesh of all -- freemen and
 servants -- both small and great.'
19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their
 armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who
 is sitting upon the horse, and with his army;
19:20 and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet
 who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who
 did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before
 his image; living they were cast -- the two -- to the lake of
 the fire, that is burning with brimstone;
19:21 and the rest were killed with the sword of him who is
 sitting on the horse, which [sword] is proceeding out of his
 mouth, and all the birds were filled out of their flesh.
20:1 And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having
 the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,
20:2 and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is
 Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,
20:3 and he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put
 a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any
 more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these
 it behoveth him to be loosed a little time.
20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
 given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded
 because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of
 God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and
 did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their
 hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand
 years;
20:5 and the rest of the dead did not live again till the
 thousand years may be finished; this [is] the first rising
 again.
20:6 Happy and holy [is] he who is having part in the first
 rising again; over these the second death hath not authority,
 but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall
 reign with him a thousand years.
20:7 And when the thousand years may be finished, the Adversary
 shall be loosed out of his prison,
20:8 and he shall go forth to lead the nations astray, that are
 in the four corners of the earth -- Gog and Magog -- to gather
 them together to war, of whom the number [is] as the sand of
 the sea;
20:9 and they did go up over the breadth of the land, and did
 surround the camp of the saints, and the beloved city, and
 there came down fire from God out of the heaven, and devoured
 them;
20:10 and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into
 the lake of fire and brimstone, where [are] the beast and the
 false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night -- to
 the ages of the ages.
20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting
 upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee
 away, and place was not found for them;
20:12 and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God,
 and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which
 is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things
 written in the scrolls -- according to their works;
20:13 and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death
 and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were
 judged, each one according to their works;
20:14 and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the
 fire -- this [is] the second death;
20:15 and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the
 life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.
21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first
 heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not
 any more;
21:2 and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming
 down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned
 for her husband;
21:3 and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo,
 the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and He will tabernacle
 with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall
 be with them -- their God,
21:4 and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the
 death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall
 there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'
21:5 And He who is sitting upon the throne said, `Lo, new I make
 all things; and He saith to me, `Write, because these words
 are true and stedfast;'
21:6 and He said to me, `It hath been done! I am the Alpha and
 the Omega, the Beginning and the End; I, to him who is
 thirsting, will give of the fountain of the water of the life
 freely;
21:7 he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will
 be to him -- a God, and he shall be to me -- the son,
21:8 and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and
 murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and
 all the liars, their part [is] in the lake that is burning with
 fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'
21:9 And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who
 have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues,
 and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride
 of the Lamb -- the wife,'
21:10 and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great
 and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy
 Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,
21:11 having the glory of God, and her light [is] like a stone
 most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal,
21:12 having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates,
 and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon,
 which are [those] of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel,
21:13 at the east three gates, at the north three gates, at the
 south three gates, at the west three gates;
21:14 and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in
 them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
21:15 And he who is speaking with me had a golden reed, that he
 may measure the city, and its gates, and its wall;
21:16 and the city lieth square, and the length of it is as
 great as the breadth; and he did measure the city with the reed
 -- furlongs twelve thousand; the length, and the breadth, and
 the height, of it are equal;
21:17 and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits,
 the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;
21:18 and the building of its wall was jasper, and the city [is]
 pure gold -- like to pure glass;
21:19 and the foundations of the wall of the city with every
 precious stone have been adorned; the first foundation jasper;
 the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth,
 emerald;
21:20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh,
 chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth,
 chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
21:21 And the twelve gates [are] twelve pearls, each several one
 of the gates was of one pearl; and the broad-place of the city
 [is] pure gold -- as transparent glass.
21:22 And a sanctuary I did not see in it, for the Lord God, the
 Almighty, is its sanctuary, and the Lamb,
21:23 and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon,
 that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it,
 and the lamp of it [is] the Lamb;
21:24 and the nations of the saved in its light shall walk, and
 the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it,
21:25 and its gates shall not at all be shut by day, for night
 shall not be there;
21:26 and they shall bring the glory and the honour of the
 nations into it;
21:27 and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling
 and doing abomination, and a lie, but -- those written in the
 scroll of the life of the Lamb.
22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as
 crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:
22:2 in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this
 side and on that, [is] a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits,
 in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of
 the tree [are] for the service of the nations;
22:3 and any curse there shall not be any more, and the throne
 of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall
 serve Him,
22:4 and they shall see His face, and His name [is] upon their
 foreheads,
22:5 and night shall not be there, and they have no need of a
 lamp and light of a sun, because the Lord God doth give them
 light, and they shall reign -- to the ages of the ages.
22:6 And he said to me, `These words [are] stedfast and true,
 and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger
 to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come
 quickly:
22:7 Lo, I come quickly; happy [is] he who is keeping the words
 of the prophecy of this scroll.'
22:8 And I, John, am he who is seeing these things and hearing,
 and when I heard and beheld, I fell down to bow before the feet
 of the messenger who is shewing me these things;
22:9 and he saith to me, `See -- not; for fellow-servant of thee
 am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping
 the words of this scroll; before God bow.'
22:10 And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the
 prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;
22:11 he who is unrighteous -- let him be unrighteous still, and
 he who is filthy -- let him be filthy still, and he who is
 righteous -- let him be declared righteous still, and he who is
 sanctified -- let him be sanctified still:
22:12 And lo, I come quickly, and my reward [is] with me, to
 render to each as his work shall be;
22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega -- the Beginning and End --
 the First and the Last.
22:14 `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority
 shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates
 they may enter into the city;
22:15 and without [are] the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the
 whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every
 one who is loving and is doing a lie.
22:16 `I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these
 things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the
 offspring of David, the bright and morning star!
22:17 And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is
 hearing -- let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting -- let
 him come; and he who is willing -- let him take the water of
 life freely.
22:18 `For I testify to every one hearing the words of the
 prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God
 shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this
 scroll,
22:19 and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll
 of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll
 of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have
 been written in this scroll;'
22:20 he saith -- who is testifying these things -- `Yes, I come
 quickly!' Amen! Yes, be coming, Lord Jesus!
22:21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you all.
 Amen.