²² A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

³ For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

³⁶ For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

⁷ And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

⁹ After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;