Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters,(A) and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying,

Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty,
reigns!(B)

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Then I heard again what sounded like the shout of a vast crowd or the roar of mighty ocean waves or the crash of loud thunder:

“Praise the Lord!
    For the Lord our God,[a] the Almighty, reigns.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:6 Some manuscripts read the Lord God.

Absolutely not!(A) Let God be true, even though everyone is a liar,(B) as it is written:

That you may be justified in your words
and triumph when you judge.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4 Ps 51:4

Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him,

“You will be proved right in what you say,
    and you will win your case in court.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:4 Ps 51:4 (Greek version).