² And I heard a voice from heaven, ^(A)like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of ^(B)harpists playing their harps. ³ They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song ^(C)except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.

A Multitude from the Great Tribulation

⁹ After these things I looked, and behold, ^(A)a great multitude which no one could number, ^(B)of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, ^(C)clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

¹⁴ And I said to him, ^[a]“Sir, you know.”

So he said to me, ^(A)“These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and ^(B)washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

¹¹ And ^(A)they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, ^(B)and they did not love their lives to the death.

The Saints Reign with Christ 1,000 Years

⁴ And I saw ^(A)thrones, and they sat on them, and ^(B)judgment was committed to them. Then I saw ^(C)the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, ^(D)who had not worshiped the beast ^(E)or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they ^(F)lived and ^(G)reigned with Christ for ^[a]a thousand years. ⁵ But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

² And I saw something like ^(A)a sea of glass ^(B)mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, ^(C)over his image and ^[a]over his mark and over the ^(D)number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, ^(E)having harps of God. ³ They sing ^(F)the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the ^(G)Lamb, saying: