Old/New Testament

Jerusalem Refined and Tested

13 “In that day a ^(A)fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for ^(B)sin and for ^(C)impurity.

² “And it will be in that day,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “that I will ^(D)cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also cause the ^(E)prophets and the ^(F)unclean spirit to pass away from the land. ³ And it will be that if anyone still ^(G)prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall ^(H)not live, for you have spoken ^(I)falsely in the name of Yahweh’; and his ^(J)father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies. ⁴ And it will be in that day, that the prophets will each be ^(K)ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a ^(L)hairy mantle in order to deceive; ⁵ but he will say, ‘I am ^(M)not a prophet; I am a cultivator of the ground, for a man ^[a]sold me as a slave in my youth.’ ⁶ And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds struck here ^(N)between your ^[b]arms?’ Then he will say, ‘Those with which I was struck in the house of ^[c]my friends.’

Yahweh Will Battle the Nations

14 Behold, a ^(Y)day is coming for Yahweh when ^(Z)the spoil taken from you will be divided among you. ² Indeed, I will ^(AA)gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the ^(AB)houses plundered, the women ravished, and half of the city will go forth in exile, but those left of the people will not be cut off from the city. ³ Then Yahweh will go forth and ^(AC)fight against those nations, as the day when He fights on a day of battle. ⁴ And in that day His feet will ^(AD)stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be ^(AE)split in its middle from east to west by a very large valley so that half of the mountain will move toward the north and the other half toward the south. ⁵ And you will flee by the valley of My mountains, for the valley of the mountains will reach to Azel; indeed, you will flee just as you fled before the ^(AF)earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. ^(AG)Then Yahweh, my God, will come, and all the holy ones with ^[f]Him!

⁶ And it will be in that day, that there will be ^(AH)no light; the ^[g]luminaries will dwindle. ⁷ And it will be ^(AI)a ^[h]unique day which is ^(AJ)known to Yahweh, neither day nor night, but it will be that at ^(AK)evening time there will be light.

⁸ And it will be in that day, ^(AL)that living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

Yahweh Will Be King over All

⁹ And Yahweh will be ^(AM)king over all the earth; in that day Yahweh will be the only ^(AN)one, and His name one.

¹⁰ All the land will be changed into a plain from ^(AO)Geba to ^(AP)Rimmon south of Jerusalem; but ^[i]Jerusalem will ^(AQ)rise and ^(AR)inhabit its site from ^(AS)Benjamin’s Gate as far as the place of the First Gate to the ^(AT)Corner Gate, and from the ^(AU)Tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses. ¹¹ And ^[j]people will inhabit it, and there will ^(AV)no longer be anything devoted to destruction, for Jerusalem will ^(AW)be inhabited in security.

¹² Now this will be the plague with which Yahweh will plague all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will ^(AX)rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth. ¹³ And it will be in that day, that abundant confusion from Yahweh will ^[k]fall on them; and they will ^(AY)take hold of one another’s hand, and the hand of one will ^[l]go up against the hand of another. ^14 (AZ)And Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the ^(BA)wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered, gold and silver and garments in great abundance. ¹⁵ And in the same way, ^(BB)the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey, and all the cattle that will be in those camps will be like this plague.

¹⁶ Then it will be that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will ^(BC)go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the ^(BD)Feast of Booths. ¹⁷ And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the ^(BE)King, Yahweh of hosts, there will be ^(BF)no rain on them. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the ^(BG)plague with which Yahweh plagues the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. ¹⁹ This will be the ^[m]punishment of Egypt, and the ^[n]punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.

²⁰ In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “^(BH)Holy to Yahweh.” And the ^(BI)pots in the house of Yahweh will be like the bowls before the altar. ²¹ And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be ^(BJ)holy to Yahweh of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a ^[o](BK)Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of hosts in that day.

The New Heaven and Earth

21 Then I saw ^(A)a new heaven and a new earth; for ^(B)the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea. ² And I saw ^(C)the holy city, ^(D)new Jerusalem, ^(E)coming down out of heaven from God, ^(F)made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, ^(G)the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will ^[a](H)dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among ^[b]them, ⁴ and He will ^(I)wipe away every tear from their eyes; and ^(J)there will no longer be any death; ^(K)there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain. ^(L)The first things passed away.”

⁵ And ^(M)He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am ^(N)making all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for ^(O)these words are faithful and true.” ⁶ Then He said to me, “^(P)They are done. I am the ^(Q)Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. ^(R)I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the ^(S)water of life without cost. ^7 (T)He who overcomes will inherit these things, and ^(U)I will be his God and he will be My son. ^8 (V)But for the cowardly and ^[c]unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in ^(W)the lake that burns with fire and ^[d]brimstone, which is the ^(X)second death.”

^9 (Y)Then one of the seven angels who have the ^(Z)seven bowls ^[e]full of the ^(AA)seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, “^(AB)Come here, I will show you the ^(AC)bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

New Jerusalem, the Holy City

¹⁰ And ^(AD)he carried me away ^[f](AE)in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me ^(AF)the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having ^(AG)the glory of God. Her ^[g]brilliance was like precious stone, as a ^(AH)stone of ^(AI)crystal-clear jasper. ^12 [h]It had a great and high wall. ^[i]It had ^(AJ)twelve ^(AK)gates and at those gates, twelve angels; and names ^[j]have been written on those gates, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. ¹³ There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west. ¹⁴ And the wall of the city had ^(AL)twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the ^(AM)twelve apostles of the Lamb.

¹⁵ And the one who spoke with me had a ^[k]gold measuring ^(AN)rod to measure the city and its ^(AO)gates and its wall. ¹⁶ And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the ^[l]rod, ^[m]12,000 stadia; its length and width and height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measured its wall, ^[n]144 cubits, according to ^(AP)human ^[o]measurements, which are also ^(AQ)angelic measurements. ¹⁸ And the material of the wall was ^(AR)jasper, and the city was ^(AS)pure gold, like pure ^(AT)glass. ^19 (AU)The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was ^(AV)jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, ^(AW)emerald; ²⁰ the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, ^(AX)sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve ^(AY)gates were twelve ^(AZ)pearls; each one of the gates was a single pearl. And the street of the city was ^(BA)pure gold, like transparent ^(BB)glass.

²² And I saw ^(BC)no sanctuary in it, for the ^(BD)Lord God the Almighty and the ^(BE)Lamb are its sanctuary. ²³ And the city ^(BF)has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for ^(BG)the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the ^(BH)Lamb. ^24 (BI)And the nations will walk by its light, and the ^(BJ)kings of the earth ^[p]will bring their glory into it. ^25 (BK)And its gates ^(BL)will never be closed by day, for ^(BM)there will be no night there; ²⁶ and ^(BN)they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. ²⁷ And ^(BO)nothing defiled, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those ^[q]whose names are ^(BP)written in the Lamb’s book of life.