² Then I saw another angel coming up from the east who had the seal of the living God. And he called out in a loud voice to the four angels to whom God had given power to harm the earth and the sea. ³ He said to them, “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we mark with a sign the foreheads of the people who serve our God.” ⁴ Then I heard how many people were marked with the sign. There were one hundred forty-four thousand from every tribe of the people of Israel.