Bible Reading December 23, 24, 25 (World English Bible)
Nahum
1-3
Nah
1:1 An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite.
Nah
1:2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full
of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains
wrath against his enemies.
Nah
1:3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no
means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the
whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Nah
1:4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the
rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon
languishes.
Nah
1:5 The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The
earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in
it.
Nah
1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the
fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the
rocks are broken apart by him.
Nah
1:7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows
those who take refuge in him.
Nah
1:8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her
place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
Nah
1:9 What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end.
Affliction won't rise up the second time.
Nah
1:10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink,
they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
Nah
1:11 There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against
Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.
Nah
1:12 Thus says Yahweh: "Though they be in full strength, and
likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away.
Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
Nah
1:13 Now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your
bonds apart."
Nah
1:14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants
will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off
the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for
you are vile."
Nah
1:15 Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news,
who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for
the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
Nah
2:1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the
fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power
mightily!
Nah
2:2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency
of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their
vine branches.
Nah
2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in
scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation,
and the pine spears are brandished.
Nah
2:4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in
the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the
lightnings.
Nah
2:5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They
dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
Nah
2:6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
Nah
2:7 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her
handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
Nah
2:8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they
flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.
Nah
2:9 Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is
no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
Nah
2:10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock
together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
Nah
2:11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the
young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs,
and no one made them afraid?
Nah
2:12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for
his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with
prey.
Nah
2:13 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies,
"and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will
devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth,
and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."
Nah
3:1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The
prey doesn't depart.
Nah
3:2 The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels,
prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
Nah
3:3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering
spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and
there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
Nah
3:4 because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring
prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her
prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
Nah
3:5 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies,
"and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the
nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
Nah
3:6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and
will set you a spectacle.
Nah
3:7 It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from
you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where
will I seek comforters for you?"
Nah
3:8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers,
who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her
wall was of the sea?
Nah
3:9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were
her helpers.
Nah
3:10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young
children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets,
and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were
bound in chains.
Nah
3:11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will
seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Nah
3:12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe
figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nah
3:13 Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your
land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your
bars.
Nah
3:14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into
the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
Nah
3:15 There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It
will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers.
Multiply like the locust.
Nah
3:16 You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the
skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
Nah
3:17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the
swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when
the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where
they are.
Nah
3:18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down.
Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to
gather them.
Nah
3:19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All
who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't
felt your endless cruelty?
Habakkuk
1-3
Hab
1:1 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.
Hab
1:2 Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to
you "Violence!" and will you not save?
Hab
1:3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For
destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and
contention rises up.
Hab
1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth;
for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth
perverted.
Hab
1:5 "Look among the nations, watch, and wonder marvelously; for
I am working a work in your days, which you will not believe though
it is told you.
Hab
1:6 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty
nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess
dwelling places that are not theirs.
Hab
1:7 They are feared and dreaded. Their judgment and their dignity
proceed from themselves.
Hab
1:8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce
than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their
horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.
Hab
1:9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He
gathers prisoners like sand.
Hab
1:10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He
laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and
takes it.
Hab
1:11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed
guilty, whose strength is his god."
Hab
1:12 Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We
will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock,
have established him to punish.
Hab
1:13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look
on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and
keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous
than he,
Hab
1:14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping
things, that have no ruler over them?
Hab
1:15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his
net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is
glad.
Hab
1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his
dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
Hab
1:17 Will he therefore continually empty his net, and kill the
nations without mercy?
Hab
2:1 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and
will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer
concerning my complaint.
Hab
2:2 Yahweh answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on
tablets, that he who runs may read it.
Hab
2:3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries
toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for
it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.
Hab
2:4 Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the
righteous will live by his faith.
Hab
2:5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't
stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death,
and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps
to himself all peoples.
Hab
2:6 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting
proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is
not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'
Hab
2:7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make
you tremble, and you will be their victim?
Hab
2:8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the
peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the
violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
Hab
2:9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set
his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
Hab
2:10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many
peoples, and have sinned against your soul.
Hab
2:11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the
woodwork will answer it.
Hab
2:12 Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city
by iniquity!
Hab
2:13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for
the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
Hab
2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of
Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
Hab
2:15 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your
inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their
naked bodies!
Hab
2:16 You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink,
and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh's right hand will come around to
you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
Hab
2:17 For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the
destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's
blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to
those who dwell in them.
Hab
2:18 "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker
has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he
who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
Hab
2:19 Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Awake!' or to the mute stone,
'Arise!' Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and
silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.
Hab
2:20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent
before him!"
Hab
3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, set to victorious music.
Hab
3:2 Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds,
Yahweh. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of
the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
Hab
3:3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His
glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
Hab
3:4 His splendor is like the sunrise. Rays shine from his hand,
where his power is hidden.
Hab
3:5 Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.
Hab
3:6 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations
tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills
collapsed. His ways are eternal.
Hab
3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the
land of Midian trembled.
Hab
3:8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against
the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your
horses, on your chariots of salvation?
Hab
3:9 You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. Selah.
You split the earth with rivers.
Hab
3:10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters
passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
Hab
3:11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your
arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
Hab
3:12 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations
in anger.
Hab
3:13 You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the
salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of
wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.
Hab
3:14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears.
They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the
wretched in secret.
Hab
3:15 You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.
Hab
3:16 I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice.
Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I
must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the
people who invade us.
Hab
3:17 For though the fig tree doesn't flourish, nor fruit be in the
vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the
flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls:
Hab
3:18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my
salvation!
Hab
3:19 Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer's
feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on
my stringed instruments.
Zephaniah
1-3
Zep
1:1 The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi,
the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the
days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Zep
1:2 I will utterly sweep away everything off of the surface of the
earth, says Yahweh.
Zep
1:3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of
the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the
wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says
Yahweh.
Zep
1:4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from
this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,
Zep
1:5 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those
who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
Zep
1:6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who
haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
Zep
1:7 Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of
Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has
consecrated his guests.
Zep
1:8 It will happen in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will
punish the princes, the king's sons, and all those who are clothed
with foreign clothing.
Zep
1:9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the
threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.
Zep
1:10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from
the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great
crashing from the hills.
Zep
1:11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan
are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
Zep
1:12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with
lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who
say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do
evil."
Zep
1:13 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a
desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They
will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.
Zep
1:14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries
greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there
bitterly.
Zep
1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a
day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds
and blackness,
Zep
1:16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities,
and against the high battlements.
Zep
1:17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind
men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be
poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
Zep
1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver
them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be
devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a
terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
Zep
2:1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation
that has no shame,
Zep
2:2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff,
before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of
Yahweh's anger comes on you.
Zep
2:3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his
ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you
will be hidden in the day of Yahweh's anger.
Zep
2:4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will
drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
Zep
2:5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the
Cherethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, Canaan, the land of
the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no
inhabitant.
Zep
2:6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and
folds for flocks.
Zep
2:7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They
will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in
the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore
them.
Zep
2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the
children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and
magnified themselves against their border.
Zep
2:9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel,
surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah,
a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my
nation will inherit them.
Zep
2:10 This they will have for their pride, because they have
reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of
Armies.
Zep
2:11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods
of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all
the shores of the nations.
Zep
2:12 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
Zep
2:13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy
Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the
wilderness.
Zep
2:14 Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the
nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its
capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will
be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
Zep
2:15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her
heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has
become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who
passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
Zep
3:1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Zep
3:2 She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She
didn't trust in Yahweh. She didn't draw near to her God.
Zep
3:3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges
are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
Zep
3:4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests
have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
Zep
3:5 Yahweh, in the midst of her, is righteous. He will do no wrong.
Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn't fail, but
the unjust know no shame.
Zep
3:6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have
made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are
destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
Zep
3:7 I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her
dwelling won't be cut off, according to all that I have appointed
concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their
doings.
Zep
3:8 "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the
day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the
nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my
indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be
devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Zep
3:9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may
all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
Zep
3:10 From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the
daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
Zep
3:11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings,
in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away
out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no
more be haughty in my holy mountain.
Zep
3:12 But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor
people, and they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.
Zep
3:13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies,
neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they
will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid."
Zep
3:14 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with
all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
Zep
3:15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your
enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. You will
not be afraid of evil any more.
Zep
3:16 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Don't be
afraid, Zion. Don't let your hands be weak."
Zep
3:17 Yahweh, your God, is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will
save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his
love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zep
3:18 I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from
you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
Zep
3:19 Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict
you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were
driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been
in all the earth.
Zep
3:20 At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I
gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the
peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,
says Yahweh.
Dec. 23
Revelation
7, 8
Rev 7:1
After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the
earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would
blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.
Rev 7:2 I
saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the
living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it
was given to harm the earth and the sea,
Rev 7:3
saying, "Don't harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees,
until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!"
Rev 7:4 I
heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four
thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
Rev 7:5
of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of
Reuben twelve thousand, of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,
Rev 7:6
of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, of the tribe of Naphtali
twelve thousand, of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,
Rev 7:7
of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, of the tribe of Levi twelve
thousand, of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,
Rev 7:8
of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, of the tribe of Joseph
twelve thousand, of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve
thousand.
Rev 7:9
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no
man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and
languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in
white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
Rev 7:10
They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God,
who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
Rev 7:11
All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the
four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his
throne, and worshiped God,
Rev 7:12
saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor,
power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen."
Rev 7:13
One of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are arrayed
in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?"
Rev 7:14
I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These
are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their
robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.
Rev 7:15
Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and
night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his
tabernacle over them.
Rev 7:16
They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the
sun beat on them, nor any heat;
Rev 7:17
for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and
leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every
tear from their eyes."
Rev 8:1
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for
about half an hour.
Rev 8:2 I
saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were
given to them.
Rev 8:3
Another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer.
Much incense was given to him, that he should add it to the prayers
of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rev 8:4
The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up
before God out of the angel's hand.
Rev 8:5
The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the
altar, and threw it on the earth. There followed thunders, sounds,
lightnings, and an earthquake.
Rev 8:6
The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to
sound.
Rev 8:7
The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with
blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was
burnt up, and one third of the trees were burnt up, and all green
grass was burnt up.
Rev 8:8
The second angel sounded, and something like a great burning mountain
was thrown into the sea. One third of the sea became blood,
Rev 8:9
and one third of the living creatures which were in the sea died. One
third of the ships were destroyed.
Rev 8:10
The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning
like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the
springs of the waters.
Rev 8:11
The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the
waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because
they were made bitter.
Rev 8:12
The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and
one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third
of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third
of it, and the night in the same way.
Rev 8:13
I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud
voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because
of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet
to sound!"
Revelation
9, 10
Rev 9:1
The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had
fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to
him.
Rev 9:2
He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit,
like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were
darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
Rev 9:3
Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was
given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Rev 9:4
They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who
don't have God's seal on their foreheads.
Rev 9:5
They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five
months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it
strikes a person.
Rev 9:6
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it.
They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Rev 9:7
The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their
heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like
people's faces.
Rev 9:8
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of
lions.
Rev 9:9
They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their
wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to
war.
Rev 9:10
They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails
they have power to harm men for five months.
Rev 9:11
They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in
Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name
"Apollyon."
Rev 9:12
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after
this.
Rev 9:13
The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden
altar which is before God,
Rev 9:14
saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four
angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"
Rev 9:15
The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and
day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
Rev 9:16
The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I
heard the number of them.
Rev 9:17
Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them,
having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow;
and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and
sulfur.
Rev 9:18
By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire,
the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
Rev 9:19
For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails.
For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they
harm.
Rev 9:20
The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't
repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship
demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of
stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
Rev 9:21
They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of
their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
Rev 10:1
I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a
cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his
feet like pillars of fire.
Rev 10:2
He had in his hand a little open book. He set his right foot on the
sea, and his left on the land.
Rev 10:3
He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven
thunders uttered their voices.
Rev 10:4
When the seven thunders sounded, I was about to write; but I heard a
voice from the sky saying, "Seal up the things which the seven
thunders said, and don't write them."
Rev 10:5
The angel who I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his
right hand to the sky,
Rev 10:6
and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and
the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it,
and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer
be delay,
Rev 10:7
but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about
to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his
servants, the prophets.
Rev 10:8
The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said,
"Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who
stands on the sea and on the land."
Rev 10:9
I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said
to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach
bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."
Rev 10:10
I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was
as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was
made bitter.
Rev 10:11
They told me, "You must prophesy again over many peoples,
nations, languages, and kings."
Revelation
11, 12
Rev 11:1
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, "Rise, and
measure God's temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.
Rev 11:2
Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don't measure
it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy
city under foot for forty-two months.
Rev 11:3
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one
thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
Rev 11:4
These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, standing before
the Lord of the earth.
Rev 11:5
If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and
devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be
killed in this way.
Rev 11:6
These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during
the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn
them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often
as they desire.
Rev 11:7
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out
of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill
them.
Rev 11:8
Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which
spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was
crucified.
Rev 11:9
From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will
look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not
allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
Rev 11:10
Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be
glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets
tormented those who dwell on the earth.
Rev 11:11
After the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered
into them, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who
saw them.
Rev 11:12
I heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here!"
They went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies saw them.
Rev 11:13
In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city
fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the
rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
Rev 11:14
The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.
Rev 11:15
The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed,
saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our
Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!"
Rev 11:16
The twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God's throne,
fell on their faces and worshiped God,
Rev 11:17
saying: "We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who
is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned.
Rev 11:18
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the
dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their
reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to
the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
Rev 11:19
God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's
covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an
earthquake, and great hail followed.
Rev 12:1
A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Rev 12:2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
Rev 12:3
Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
Rev 12:4
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to
the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give
birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
Rev 12:5
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations
with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his
throne.
Rev 12:6
The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by
God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty
days.
Rev 12:7
There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the
dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
Rev 12:8
They didn't prevail, neither was a place found for him any more in
heaven.
Rev 12:9
The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called
the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown
down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
Rev 12:10
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the
salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority
of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down,
who accuses them before our God day and night.
Rev 12:11
They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the
word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death.
Rev 12:12
Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the
earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having
great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
Rev 12:13
When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he
persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
Rev 12:14
Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might
fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished
for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Rev 12:15
The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a
river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
Rev 12:16
The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and
swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
Rev 12:17
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with
the rest of her seed, who keep God's commandments and hold Jesus'
testimony.
