7 After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the land, on the sea or on any tree.

² I saw another angel coming up from the east with a seal from the living God, and he shouted to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea,

³ “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads!”

⁴ I heard how many were sealed — 144,000 from every tribe of the people of Isra’el: