启示录 12
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
生子的女人和大龙
12 那时，天上出现了一个奇伟的景象：有一个妇人，身披太阳，脚踏月亮，头戴十二颗星的冠冕。 2 她怀了孕，在生产的痛苦中疼痛呼叫。 3 天上又出现了另一个景象。看哪！有一条大红龙，有七头十角，七头上戴着七个皇冠。 4 牠的尾巴拖着天上三分之一的星辰，把它们摔在地上。龙站在那快要生产的妇人面前，等她生产了，就要吞吃她的孩子。 5 她生了一个男孩子，就是将来要用铁杖治理列国的。她的孩子被提取到 神和他宝座那里去。 6 妇人就逃到旷野去了，那里有 神为她预备的地方。她在那里得供养一千二百六十天。
7 天上发生了战争：米迦勒和他的天使与龙作战。龙和牠的天使也起来应战， 8 龙却抵挡不住，天上再也没有牠们的地方了。 9 于是那大龙被摔了下来。牠就是那古蛇，名叫魔鬼，又叫撒但，是迷惑普天下的人的。牠被摔在地上，牠的天使也跟牠一同被摔了下来。 10 我又听见天上有大声音说：
“我们 神的救恩、能力、国度
和他所立的基督的权柄，
现在都已经来到了！
因为那昼夜在我们 神面前
控告我们弟兄的控告者，
已经被摔下来了！
11 弟兄胜过牠，是因着羊羔的血，
也因着自己所见证的道，
他们虽然至死，
也不爱惜自己的性命。
12 所以，众天和住在其中的，
你们都欢乐吧！
可是地和海有祸了！
因为魔鬼知道自己的时日无多，
就大大发怒下到你们那里去了。”
13 龙见自己被摔在地上，就迫害那生了男孩子的妇人。 14 于是有大鹰的两个翅膀赐给了那妇人，使她可以飞到旷野，到自己的地方，在那里得供养一年两年半年，离开那蛇的面。 15 蛇在妇人后面，从口中吐出水来，好象江河一样，要把妇人冲去。 16 地却帮助了那妇人，张开口，把从龙口中吐出来的河水吞了。 17 龙就向妇人发怒，去和她其余的子孙作战，就是和那遵守 神命令坚持耶稣见证的人作战。 18 那时，龙站在海边的沙上。
Revelation 12
The Message
The Woman, Her Son, and the Dragon
12 1-2 A great Sign appeared in Heaven: a Woman dressed all in sunlight, standing on the moon, and crowned with Twelve Stars. She was giving birth to a Child and cried out in the pain of childbirth.
3-4 And then another Sign alongside the first: a huge and fiery Dragon! It had seven heads and ten horns, a crown on each of the seven heads. With one flick of its tail it knocked a third of the Stars from the sky and dumped them on earth. The Dragon crouched before the Woman in childbirth, poised to eat up the Child when it came.
5-6 The Woman gave birth to a Son who will shepherd all nations with an iron rod. Her Son was seized and placed safely before God on his Throne. The Woman herself escaped to the desert to a place of safety prepared by God, all comforts provided her for 1,260 days.
7-12 War broke out in Heaven. Michael and his Angels fought the Dragon. The Dragon and his Angels fought back, but were no match for Michael. They were cleared out of Heaven, not a sign of them left. The great Dragon—ancient Serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, the one who led the whole earth astray—thrown out, and all his Angels thrown out with him, thrown down to earth. Then I heard a strong voice out of Heaven saying,
Salvation and power are established!
Kingdom of our God, authority of his Messiah!
The Accuser of our brothers and sisters thrown out,
who accused them day and night before God.
They defeated him through the blood of the Lamb
and the bold word of their witness.
They weren’t in love with themselves;
they were willing to die for Christ.
So rejoice, O Heavens, and all who live there,
but doom to earth and sea,
For the Devil’s come down on you with both feet;
he’s had a great fall;
He’s wild and raging with anger;
he hasn’t much time and he knows it.
13-17 When the Dragon saw he’d been thrown to earth, he went after the Woman who had given birth to the Man-Child. The Woman was given wings of a great eagle to fly to a place in the desert to be kept in safety and comfort for a time and times and half a time, safe and sound from the Serpent. The Serpent vomited a river of water to swamp and drown her, but earth came to her help, swallowing the water the Dragon spewed from its mouth. Helpless with rage, the Dragon raged at the Woman, then went off to make war with the rest of her children, the children who keep God’s commands and hold firm to the witness of Jesus.
Chinese New Version (CNV). Copyright © 1976, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2005 by Worldwide Bible Society.
Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson