Revelation 7:3-9:4
English Standard Version
3 saying, (A)“Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God (B)on their foreheads.” 4 And (C)I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
5 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,
12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
6 12,000 from the tribe of Asher,
12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,
12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
7 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,
12,000 from the tribe of Levi,
12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
8 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,
12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,
12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.
A Great Multitude from Every Nation
9 After this I looked, and behold, (D)a great multitude that no one could number, (E)from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, (F)clothed in white robes, with (G)palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, (H)“Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and (I)the four living creatures, and they (J)fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 (K)saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, (L)clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?” 14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of (M)the great tribulation. (N)They have washed their robes and (O)made them white (P)in the blood of the Lamb.
15 “Therefore they are before the throne of God,
and (Q)serve him day and night in his temple;
and he who sits on the throne (R)will shelter them with his presence.
16 (S)They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore;
(T)the sun shall not strike them,
nor any scorching heat.
17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne (U)will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of (V)living water,
and (W)God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer
8 When the Lamb opened (X)the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angels (Y)who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 3 And another angel came and stood (Z)at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with (AA)the prayers of all the saints on (AB)the golden altar before the throne, 4 and (AC)the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. 5 Then the angel took the censer and (AD)filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and (AE)there were peals of (AF)thunder, rumblings,[a] flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
The Seven Trumpets
6 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.
7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed (AG)hail and (AH)fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a (AI)third of the earth was burned up, and a third of (AJ)the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like (AK)a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea (AL)became blood. 9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of (AM)the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and (AN)a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on (AO)the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood.[b] A third of the waters (AP)became wormwood, and many people died from the water, (AQ)because it had been made bitter.
12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of (AR)the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, (AS)“Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”
9 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and (AT)I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given (AU)the key to the shaft of (AV)the bottomless pit.[c] 2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft (AW)rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and (AX)the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 3 Then from the smoke came (AY)locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told (AZ)not to harm (BA)the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have (BB)the seal of God on their foreheads.
Footnotes
- Revelation 8:5 Or voices, or sounds
- Revelation 8:11 Wormwood is the name of a plant and of the bitter-tasting extract derived from it
- Revelation 9:1 Greek the abyss; also verses 2, 11
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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