Prophecies against Neighboring Nations

9 The pronouncement of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach, with ^(A)Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of mankind, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord),

Restoration of Judah and Ephraim

God Will Bless Judah and Ephraim

10 Ask for ^(AT)rain from the Lord at the time of the spring rain—

The Doomed Flock

11 Open your doors, Lebanon,

⁴ This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to ^(CE)slaughter. ⁵ Those who buy them slaughter them and ^[ac]go ^(CF)unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for ^(CG)I have become rich!’ And their ^(CH)own shepherds have no compassion for them. ⁶ For I will ^(CI)no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will ^(CJ)let the people fall, each into another’s ^[ad]power and into the ^[ae]power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will ^(CK)not rescue them from their ^[af]power.”

⁷ So I ^(CL)pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, ^[ag]therefore also the ^(CM)afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two ^(CN)staffs: the one I called ^[ah](CO)Favor, and the other I called ^(CP)Union; so I pastured the flock. ⁸ Then I did away with the three shepherds in ^(CQ)one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also ^[ai]was tired of me. ⁹ Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to ^(CR)die, ^[aj]let it die, and what is to perish, ^[ak]let it perish; and ^[al]let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.” ¹⁰ And I took my staff ^[am](CS)Favor and cut it in pieces, to ^[an](CT)break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. ¹¹ So it was ^[ao]broken on that day, and ^[ap]so the ^(CU)afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord. ¹² And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my ^(CV)wages; but if not, ^[aq]never mind!” So they weighed out ^(CW)thirty shekels of silver as my wages. ¹³ Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the ^(CX)potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord. ¹⁴ Then I cut in pieces my second staff ^(CY)Union, to ^(CZ)break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

¹⁵ And the Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a ^(DA)foolish shepherd. ¹⁶ For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will ^(DB)not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or provide for the one who is exhausted, but will ^(DC)devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

The Beast from the Sea

13 And the dragon stood on the sand of the ^[a]seashore.

Then I saw a ^(A)beast coming up out of the sea, having ^(B)ten horns and ^(C)seven heads, and on his horns were ^(D)ten crowns, and on his heads were ^(E)blasphemous names. ² And the beast that I saw was ^(F)like a leopard, and his feet were like those of ^(G)a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of ^(H)a lion. And the ^(I)dragon gave him his power and his ^(J)throne, and great authority. ³ I saw one of his heads as if it had been ^[b]fatally wounded, and his ^(K)fatal wound was healed. And the whole earth ^(L)was amazed and followed after the beast; ⁴ they worshiped the ^(M)dragon because he ^(N)gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “^(O)Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?” ⁵ A mouth was given to him ^(P)speaking ^[c]arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for ^(Q)forty-two months was given to him. ⁶ And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, that is, ^(R)those who dwell in heaven.

⁷ It was also given to him to ^(S)make war with the ^[d]saints and to overcome them, and authority was given to him over ^(T)every tribe, people, language, and nation. ⁸ All who ^(U)live on the earth will worship him, everyone ^(V)whose name has not been ^[e]written ^(W)since the foundation of the world in the ^(X)book of life of ^(Y)the Lamb who has been slaughtered. ^9 (Z)If anyone has an ear, let him hear. ^10 (AA)If anyone ^[f]is destined for captivity, to captivity he goes; ^(AB)if anyone kills with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. Here is ^(AC)the ^[g]perseverance and the faith of the ^[h]saints.

The Beast from the Earth

¹¹ Then ^(AD)I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had ^(AE)two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a ^(AF)dragon. ¹² He ^(AG)exercises all the authority of the first beast ^[i](AH)in his presence. And he makes ^(AI)the earth and those who live on it ^(AJ)worship the first beast, whose ^(AK)fatal wound was healed. ¹³ He ^(AL)performs great signs, so that he even makes ^(AM)fire come down out of the sky to the earth in the presence of people. ¹⁴ And he ^(AN)deceives ^(AO)those who live on the earth because of ^(AP)the signs which it was given him to perform ^[j](AQ)in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who *had the ^(AR)wound of the sword and has come to life. ¹⁵ And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even ^[k]speak and cause ^(AS)all who do not ^(AT)worship the image of the beast to be killed. ¹⁶ And he causes all, ^(AU)the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, ^[l]to be given a ^(AV)mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, ¹⁷ and he decrees that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the ^(AW)mark, either ^(AX)the name of the beast or ^(AY)the number of his name. ^18 (AZ)Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that ^(BA)of a ^[m]man; and his number is ^[n]six hundred and sixty-six.

The Lamb and the 144,000 on Mount Zion

14 Then I looked, and behold, ^(BB)the Lamb was standing on ^(BC)Mount Zion, and with Him ^(BD)144,000 who had ^(BE)His name and the ^(BF)name of His Father written ^(BG)on their foreheads. ² And I heard a voice from heaven, like ^(BH)the sound of many waters and like the ^(BI)sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of ^(BJ)harpists playing on their harps. ³ And they *sang ^[o](BK)a new song before the throne and before the ^(BL)four living creatures and the ^(BM)elders; and ^(BN)no one was able to learn the song except the ^(BO)144,000 who had been ^(BP)purchased from the earth. ^4 (BQ)These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are celibate. These are the ones who ^(BR)follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been ^(BS)purchased from mankind ^(BT)as first fruits to God and to the Lamb. ⁵ And ^(BU)no lie was found in their mouths; they are ^(BV)blameless.

Vision of the Angel with the Gospel

⁶ And I saw another angel flying in ^(BW)midheaven with ^(BX)an eternal gospel to preach to ^(BY)those who ^[p]live on the earth, and to ^(BZ)every nation, tribe, language, and people; ⁷ and he said with a loud voice, “^(CA)Fear God and ^(CB)give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come; worship Him who ^(CC)made the heaven and the earth, and sea and ^(CD)springs of waters.”

⁸ And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “^[q](CE)Fallen, fallen is ^(CF)Babylon the great, she who has ^(CG)made all the nations drink of the ^(CH)wine of the ^[r]passion of her sexual immorality.”

Doom for Worshipers of the Beast

⁹ Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone ^(CI)worships the beast and his ^(CJ)image, and receives a ^(CK)mark on his forehead or on his hand, ¹⁰ he also will drink of the ^(CL)wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed ^[s]in full strength ^(CM)in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with ^(CN)fire and ^[t]brimstone in the presence of the ^(CO)holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. ¹¹ And the ^(CP)smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; ^(CQ)they have no rest day and night, those who ^(CR)worship the beast and his ^(CS)image, and ^[u]whoever receives the ^(CT)mark of his name.” ¹² Here is ^(CU)the ^[v]perseverance of the ^[w]saints who ^(CV)keep the commandments of God and ^[x](CW)their faith in Jesus.

¹³ And I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Write: ‘^(CX)Blessed are the dead who ^(CY)die in the Lord from now on!’” “Yes,” ^(CZ)says the Spirit, “so that they may ^(DA)rest from their labors, for their ^(DB)deeds follow with them.”

The Harvest

¹⁴ Then I looked, and behold, a ^(DC)white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one ^(DD)like ^[y]a son of man, with a golden ^(DE)crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. ¹⁵ And another angel ^(DF)came out of the ^[z]temple, calling out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “^[aa](DG)Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the ^(DH)harvest of the earth ^[ab]is ripe.” ¹⁶ Then He who sat on the cloud ^[ac]swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

¹⁷ And another angel ^(DI)came out of the ^[ad]temple which is in heaven, and he also had a sharp sickle. ¹⁸ Then another angel, ^(DJ)the one who has power over fire, came out from ^(DK)the altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “^[ae](DL)Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters ^[af]from the vine of the earth, ^(DM)because her grapes are ripe.” ¹⁹ So the angel ^[ag]swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into ^(DN)the great wine press of the wrath of God. ²⁰ And ^(DO)the wine press was trampled ^(DP)outside the city, and ^(DQ)blood came out from the wine press, up to the horses’ bridles, ^[ah]for a distance of ^[ai]1,600 stadia.

A Scene of Heaven

15 Then I saw ^(DR)another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, ^(DS)seven angels who had ^(DT)seven plagues, which are ^(DU)the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.

² And I saw something like a ^(DV)sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who ^(DW)were victorious ^[aj]over the ^(DX)beast and ^(DY)his image and the ^(DZ)number of his name, standing on the ^(EA)sea of glass, holding ^(EB)harps of God. ³ And they *sang the ^(EC)song of Moses, ^(ED)the bond-servant of God, and the ^(EE)song of the Lamb, saying,

⁵ After these things I looked, and ^(EL)the ^[am]temple of the ^(EM)tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened, ⁶ and the ^(EN)seven angels who had the seven plagues ^(EO)came out of the ^[an]temple, clothed in ^[ao]linen, clean and bright, and ^(EP)their chests wrapped with golden sashes. ⁷ And one of the ^(EQ)four living creatures gave the ^(ER)seven angels seven ^(ES)golden bowls full of the ^(ET)wrath of God, who ^(EU)lives forever and ever. ⁸ And the ^[ap]temple was filled with ^(EV)smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one was able to enter the ^[aq]temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

The Bowls of Wrath

16 Then I heard a loud voice from ^(EW)the ^[ar]temple, saying to the ^(EX)seven angels, “Go and ^(EY)pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”

² So the first angel went and poured out his bowl ^(EZ)on the earth; and a harmful and painful ^(FA)sore ^[as]afflicted the people ^(FB)who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

³ The second angel poured out his bowl ^(FC)into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living ^[at]thing in the sea died.

⁴ Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the ^(FD)rivers and the springs of waters; and they ^(FE)became blood. ⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “^(FF)Righteous are You, ^(FG)the One who is and who was, O ^(FH)Holy One, because You ^(FI)judged these things; ⁶ for they poured out ^(FJ)the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them ^(FK)blood to drink. They ^[au]deserve it.” ⁷ And I heard ^(FL)the altar saying, “Yes, ^(FM)Lord God, the Almighty, ^(FN)true and righteous are Your judgments.”

⁸ And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon ^(FO)the sun, ^(FP)and it was given power to scorch people with fire. ⁹ And the people were scorched with ^[av]fierce heat; and they ^(FQ)blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they ^(FR)did not repent so as to ^(FS)give Him glory.

¹⁰ And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the ^(FT)throne of the beast, and his kingdom became ^(FU)darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain, ¹¹ and they ^(FV)blasphemed the ^(FW)God of heaven because of their pain and their ^(FX)sores; and they ^(FY)did not repent of their deeds.

¹² The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the ^(FZ)great river, the Euphrates; and ^(GA)its water was dried up, so that ^(GB)the way would be prepared for the kings ^(GC)from the ^[aw]east.

Har-Magedon (Armageddon)

¹³ And I saw coming out of the mouth of the ^(GD)dragon, and out of the mouth of the ^(GE)beast, and out of the mouth of the ^(GF)false prophet, three ^(GG)unclean spirits like ^(GH)frogs; ¹⁴ for they are ^(GI)spirits of demons, ^(GJ)performing signs, which go out to the kings of the ^(GK)entire ^[ax]world, to ^(GL)gather them together for the war of the ^(GM)great day of God, the Almighty. ¹⁵ (“Behold, ^(GN)I am coming like a thief. ^(GO)Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, ^(GP)so that he will not walk about naked and people will not see his shame.”) ¹⁶ And they ^(GQ)gathered them together to the place which ^(GR)in Hebrew is called ^(GS)Har-Magedon.

The Seventh Bowl of Wrath

¹⁷ Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon ^(GT)the air, and a ^(GU)loud voice came out of the ^[ay](GV)temple from the throne, saying, “^(GW)It is done.” ¹⁸ And there were flashes of ^(GX)lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was ^(GY)a great earthquake, ^(GZ)such as there had not been since mankind came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. ^19 (HA)The great city ^[az]was split into three parts, and the cities of the ^[ba]nations fell. ^(HB)Babylon the great was ^(HC)remembered in the sight of God, to give her ^(HD)the cup of the wine of ^[bb]His fierce wrath. ²⁰ And ^(HE)every island fled, and no mountains were found. ²¹ And ^(HF)huge ^[bc]hailstones, weighing about ^[bd]a talent each, *came down from heaven upon people; and people ^(HG)blasphemed God because of the ^(HH)plague of the hail, because ^[be]the hailstone plague *was extremely ^[bf]severe.