³ And I will appoint my two witnesses,^(A) and they will prophesy for 1,260 days,^(B) clothed in sackcloth.”^(C)

⁵ If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies.^(A) This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.^{(B) 6} They have power to shut up the heavens^(C) so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying;^(D) and they have power to turn the waters into blood^(E) and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.

¹⁰ The inhabitants of the earth^(A) will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts,^(B) because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

¹¹ But after the three and a half days^(C) the breath^[a] of life from God entered them,^(D) and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.