Old/New Testament

A Fountain to Wash Away Sin

13 On that day^[a] a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

² In that day, declares the Lord of Armies, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the impure spirit from the land. ³ If anyone still prophesies, his father and his mother who gave birth to him will tell him, “You shall not live, because you have spoken lies in the name of the Lord!” Then his father and his mother who gave birth to him will stab him when he prophesies.

⁴ In that day each of those prophets will be ashamed of his vision. When he prophesies, he will not put on a prophet’s garment made of hair in order to deceive. ⁵ Instead he will say, “I am not a prophet. I have been a tiller of the soil since my youth, when a man bought me.” ⁶ Someone will ask him, “What are these wounds on your body?”^[b] He will reply, “I received these wounds in the house of my friends.”

Strike the Shepherd, and the Sheep Will Be Scattered

Jerusalem Will Be Plundered

14 Listen! A day is coming for the Lord, when the plunder taken from you will be divided in your presence.

² I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be taken, the houses plundered, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

The Lord Will Be King Over All the Earth

³ Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. ⁴ On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. The Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half toward the south. ⁵ You will flee through my mountain valley, because the mountain valley will reach to Azal. Yes, you will flee, just as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones will come with him.^[d]

⁶ On that day there will be no light. The light sources will freeze over.^{[e] 7} It will be a unique day—known to the Lord—neither day nor night. But at evening time there will be light.

⁸ On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the eastern sea^[f] and half of it toward the western sea.^[g] It will continue to flow in summer and in winter.

⁹ The Lord will be King over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be the one, and his name will be the one.

¹⁰ The whole land will be changed into a plain, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be elevated and remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the place of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses. ¹¹ It will be inhabited, and it will no longer be devoted to destruction. Jerusalem will dwell in security.

¹² This will be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who have waged war against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are standing on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. ¹³ On that day there will be a great panic from the Lord among them. They will seize each other by the hand, and the hand of each one will be raised up against his neighbor. ¹⁴ Even Judah will fight against^[h] Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected: gold, silver, and clothing in great abundance. ¹⁵ In the same way a plague will afflict the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and all the animals that will be in those camps.

¹⁶ Then every survivor who is left from all the nations that went up against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord of Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters. ¹⁷ But if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Armies, no rain will fall on them. ¹⁸ If the family of clans from Egypt will not go up and enter in, they will be struck by the plague that the Lord used to strike the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters. ¹⁹ This will be the punishment for Egypt as well as the punishment for all the nations that will not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

²⁰ In that day this will be inscribed on the bells of the horses: “Holy to the Lord.” The cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be like the sprinkling bowls in front of the altar. ²¹ Every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of Armies, and all who sacrifice will come and take some of them and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite^[i] in the house of the Lord of Armies.

The New Heaven and the New Earth

21 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. And the sea no longer existed. ² And I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

³ And from the throne^[a] I heard a loud voice that said, “Look! God’s dwelling is with people. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God. ⁴ He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain, because the former things have passed away.”

⁵ The one who was seated on the throne said to me, “Look, I am making everything new!” He also said, “Write, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ⁶ And he said to me:

The New Jerusalem

⁹ One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls that were filled with the seven last plagues came and spoke with me. He said, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

¹⁰ He carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and he showed me the^[b] Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. ¹¹ It has the glory of God. Its radiance is similar to a very precious stone, like crystal-clear jasper.

¹² It has a large, high wall. It has twelve gates. Twelve angels are at the gates, and twelve names are engraved on the gates, the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. ¹³ Three gates are on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west. ¹⁴ The city’s wall also has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the Lamb’s twelve apostles.

¹⁵ The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod so that he could measure the city, its gates, and its wall. ¹⁶ The city is laid out as a square. Its length and width are equal. He measured the city with the measuring rod: 12,000 stadia.^[c] Its length, width, and height are equal. ¹⁷ He also measured its wall by human measurement, which was what the angel used: 144 cubits.

¹⁸ The wall is made of jasper, and the city is pure gold, like pure glass. ¹⁹ The foundations of the city’s wall had been adorned with every kind of precious stone.

²¹ The twelve gates are twelve pearls. Each of the gates is made out of one pearl. And the street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.

²² I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God has given it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The nations^[g] will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory^[h] into it. ²⁵ There is no day when its gates will be shut, for there will be no night in that place. ²⁶ They will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. ²⁷ Nothing that is unclean and no one who does what is detestable or who tells lies will ever enter it, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.