Bible Reading for December 28 and 29
World English Bible
Dec.
28
Zechariah
5-8
Zec
5:1 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying
scroll.
Zec
5:2 He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I
see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten
cubits."
Zec
5:3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over
the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut
off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely
shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
Zec
5:4 I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and
it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him
who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his
house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
Zec
5:5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me,
"Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing."
Zec
5:6 I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah
basket that is appearing." He said moreover, "This is their
appearance in all the land
Zec
5:7 (and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a
woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket."
Zec
5:8 He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down
into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead
on its mouth.
Zec
5:9 Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two
women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the
wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth
and the sky.
Zec
5:10 Then said I to the angel who talked with me, "Where are
these carrying the ephah basket?"
Zec
5:11 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of
Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."
Zec
6:1 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots
came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains
of brass.
Zec
6:2 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second chariot
black horses;
Zec
6:3 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot
dappled horses, all of them powerful.
Zec
6:4 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these,
my lord?"
Zec
6:5 The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the
sky, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
Zec
6:6 The one with the black horses goes out toward the north country;
and the white went out after them; and the dappled went forth toward
the south country."
Zec
6:7 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back
and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through
the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth.
Zec
6:8 Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "Behold,
those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the
north country."
Zec
6:9 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Zec
6:10 "Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of
Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and come the same day, and go into the house
of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, where they have come from Babylon.
Zec
6:11 Yes, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them on the
head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
Zec
6:12 and speak to him, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "Behold,
the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his
place; and he shall build the temple of Yahweh;
Zec
6:13 even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear the
glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest
on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
Zec
6:14 The crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah,
and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of
Yahweh.
Zec
6:15 Those who are far off shall come and build in the temple of
Yahweh; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
This will happen, if you will diligently obey the voice of Yahweh
your God." ' "
Zec
7:1 It happened in the fourth year of king Darius that the word of
Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the
month of Chislev.
Zec
7:2 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their
men, to entreat Yahweh's favor,
Zec
7:3 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies,
and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month,
separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"
Zec
7:4 Then the word of Yahweh of Armies came to me, saying,
Zec
7:5 "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests,
saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh
month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to
me?
Zec
7:6 When you eat, and when you drink, don't you eat for yourselves,
and drink for yourselves?
Zec
7:7 Aren't these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former
prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its
cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?' "
Zec
7:8 The word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,
Zec
7:9 "Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, 'Execute true
judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
Zec
7:10 Don't oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor
the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your
heart.'
Zec
7:11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped
their ears, that they might not hear.
Zec
7:12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might
hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his
Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh
of Armies.
Zec
7:13 It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to
listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said Yahweh
of Armies;
Zec
7:14 "but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the
nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after
them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the
pleasant land desolate."
Zec
8:1 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
Zec
8:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "I am jealous for Zion with
great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath."
Zec
8:3 Thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Zion, and will dwell
in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called 'The City of
Truth;' and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, 'The Holy Mountain.' "
Zec
8:4 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Old men and old women will
again dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in
his hand for very age.
Zec
8:5 The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing
in its streets."
Zec
8:6 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "If it is marvelous in the eyes
of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be
marvelous in my eyes?" says Yahweh of Armies.
Zec
8:7 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Behold, I will save my people
from the east country, and from the west country;
Zec
8:8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in
truth and in righteousness."
Zec
8:9 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, you
who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who
were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies
was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
Zec
8:10 For before those days there was no wages for man, nor any wages
for an animal; neither was there any peace to him who went out or
came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against
his neighbor.
Zec
8:11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the
former days," says Yahweh of Armies.
Zec
8:12 "For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit,
and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give
their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all
these things.
Zec
8:13 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the
nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and
you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."
Zec
8:14 For thus says Yahweh of Armies: "As I thought to do evil
to you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath," says Yahweh of
Armies, "and I didn't repent;
Zec
8:15 so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem
and to the house of Judah. Don't be afraid.
Zec
8:16 These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the
truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in
your gates,
Zec
8:17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his
neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I
hate," says Yahweh.
Zec
8:18 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me.
Zec
8:19 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "The fasts of the fourth
fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy
and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace."
Zec
8:20 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Many peoples, and the
inhabitants of many cities will yet come;
Zec
8:21 and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, 'Let us
go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of
Armies. I will go also.'
Zec
8:22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh
of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh."
Zec
8:23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "In those days, ten men will
take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take
hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, 'We will go with you,
for we have heard that God is with you.' "
Dec.
29
Zechariah
9-12
Zec
9:1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach,
and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes
of Israel is toward Yahweh;
Zec
9:2 and Hamath, also, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon, because
they are very wise.
Zec
9:3 Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the
dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
Zec
9:4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her
power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.
Zec
9:5 Ashkelon will see it, and fear; Gaza also, and will writhe in
agony; as will Ekron, for her expectation will be disappointed; and
the king will perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited.
Zec
9:6 Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of
the Philistines.
Zec
9:7 I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his
abominations from between his teeth; and he also will be a remnant
for our God; and he will be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a
Jebusite.
Zec
9:8 I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass
through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more:
for now I have seen with my eyes.
Zec
9:9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having
salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of
a donkey.
Zec
9:10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from
Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak
peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and
from the River to the ends of the earth.
Zec
9:11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have
set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
Zec
9:12 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I
declare that I will restore double to you.
Zec
9:13 For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow
with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons,
Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
Zec
9:14 Yahweh will be seen over them; and his arrow will go flash like
lightning; and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go
with whirlwinds of the south.
Zec
9:15 Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and
overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through
wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the
altar.
Zec
9:16 Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his
people; for they are like the jewels of a crown, lifted on high over
his land.
Zec
9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty!
Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
Zec
10:1 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm
clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the
field.
Zec
10:2 For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen
a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain.
Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because
there is no shepherd.
Zec
10:3 My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish
the male goats; For Yahweh of Armies has visited his flock, the house
of Judah, and will make them as his majestic horse in the battle.
Zec
10:4 From him will come forth the cornerstone, from him the nail,
from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.
Zec
10:5 They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the
battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the
riders on horses will be confounded.
Zec
10:6 "I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the
house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on
them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am
Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
Zec
10:7 Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice
as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their
heart will be glad in Yahweh.
Zec
10:8 I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed
them; and they will increase as they have increased.
Zec
10:9 I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in
far countries; and they will live with their children, and will
return.
Zec
10:10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and
gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of
Gilead and Lebanon; and there won't be room enough for them.
Zec
10:11 He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike
the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and
the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt
will depart.
Zec
10:12 I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and
down in his name," says Yahweh.
Zec
11:1 Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
Zec
11:2 Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately
ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest
has come down.
Zec
11:3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is
destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of
the Jordan is ruined.
Zec
11:4 Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.
Zec
11:5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell
them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds
don't pity them.
Zec
11:6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says
Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his
neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the
land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."
Zec
11:7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of
the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor,"
and the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock.
Zec
11:8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was
weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
Zec
11:9 Then I said, "I will not feed you. That which dies, let it
die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let
those who are left eat each other's flesh."
Zec
11:10 I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my
covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
Zec
11:11 It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that
listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.
Zec
11:12 I said to them, "If you think it best, give me my wages;
and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my wages thirty
pieces of silver.
Zec
11:13 Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome
price that I was valued at by them!" I took the thirty pieces of
silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.
Zec
11:14 Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might
break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Zec
11:15 Yahweh said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the
equipment of a foolish shepherd.
Zec
11:16 For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will
not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are
scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is
sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear
their hoofs in pieces.
Zec
11:17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword
will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely
withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"
Zec
12:1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who
stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and
forms the spirit of man within him says:
Zec
12:2 "Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the
surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege
against Jerusalem.
Zec
12:3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with
it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be
gathered together against it.
Zec
12:4 In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse
with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on
the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with
blindness.
Zec
12:5 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, 'The
inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their
God.'
Zec
12:6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of
fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they
will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the
left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in
Jerusalem.
Zec
12:7 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory
of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem
not be magnified above Judah.
Zec
12:8 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He
who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the
house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before
them.
Zec
12:9 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zec
12:10 I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will
look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as
one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one
grieves for his firstborn.
Zec
12:11 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like
the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Zec
12:12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the
house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house
of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zec
12:13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart;
the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
Zec
12:14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their
wives apart.
Dec. 28
Revelation
17, 18
Rev
17:1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke
with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the
great prostitute who sits on many waters,
Rev
17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality,
and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of
her sexual immorality."
Rev
17:3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a
woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names,
having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev
17:4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with
gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup
full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of
the earth.
Rev
17:5 And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH."
Rev
17:6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with
the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with
great amazement.
Rev
17:7 The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you
the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which
has the seven heads and the ten horns.
Rev
17:8 The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up
out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the
earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from
the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast
was, and is not, and shall be present.
Rev
17:9 Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven
mountains, on which the woman sits.
Rev
17:10 They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other
has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.
Rev
17:11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and
is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.
Rev
17:12 The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no
kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast,
for one hour.
Rev
17:13 These have one mind, and they give their power and authority
to the beast.
Rev
17:14 These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome
them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will
overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful."
Rev
17:15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the
prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
Rev
17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate
the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked,
and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.
Rev
17:17 For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and
to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the
words of God should be accomplished.
Rev
17:18 The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over
the kings of the earth."
Rev
18:1 After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the
sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his
glory.
Rev
18:2 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is
Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a
prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and
hateful bird!
Rev
18:3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality
with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance
of her luxury."
Rev
18:4 I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of
her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that
you don't receive of her plagues,
Rev
18:5 for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered
her iniquities.
Rev
18:6 Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she
did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to
her double.
Rev
18:7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much
give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a
queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'
Rev
18:8 Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning,
and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord
God who has judged her is strong.
Rev
18:9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and
lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look
at the smoke of her burning,
Rev
18:10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe,
woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has
come in one hour.'
Rev
18:11 The merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no one
buys their merchandise any more;
Rev
18:12 merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine
linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of
ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and
iron, and marble;
Rev
18:13 and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil,
fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and
souls.
Rev
18:14 The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you,
and all things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you,
and you will find them no more at all.
Rev
18:15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will
stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;
Rev
18:16 saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine
linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones
and pearls!
Rev
18:17 For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every
shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as
many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
Rev
18:18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning,
saying, 'What is like the great city?'
Rev
18:19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and
mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had
their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!'
For in one hour is she made desolate.
Rev
18:20 "Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and
prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her."
Rev
18:21 A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast
it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the
great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
Rev
18:22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and
trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of
whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a
mill will be heard no more at all in you.
Rev
18:23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The
voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all
in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with
your sorcery all the nations were deceived.
Rev
18:24 In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of
all who have been slain on the earth."
Dec. 29
Revelation
19, 20
Rev
19:1 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a
great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation,
power, and glory belong to our God:
Rev
19:2 for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the
great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality,
and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."
Rev
19:3 A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and
ever."
Rev
19:4 The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down
and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, "Amen!
Hallelujah!"
Rev
19:5 A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise
to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the
great!"
Rev
19:6 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like
the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders,
saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
Rev
19:7 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the
glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has
made herself ready."
Rev
19:8 It was given to her that she would array herself in bright,
pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the
saints.
Rev
19:9 He said to me, "Write, 'Blessed are those who are invited
to the marriage supper of the Lamb.' " He said to me, "These
are true words of God."
Rev
19:10 I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me,
"Look! Don't do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with
your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the
testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy."
Rev
19:11 I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who
sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and
makes war.
Rev
19:12 His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns.
He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he
himself.
Rev
19:13 He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is
called "The Word of God."
Rev
19:14 The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses,
clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
Rev
19:15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that
with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron
rod. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God,
the Almighty.
Rev
19:16 He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, "KING
OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS."
Rev
19:17 I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud
voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, "Come! Be
gathered together to the great supper of God,
Rev
19:18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains,
the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit
on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and
great."
Rev
19:19 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies,
gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and
against his army.
Rev
19:20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked
the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received
the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two
were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
Rev
19:21 The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the
horse, the sword which came forth out of his mouth. All the birds
were filled with their flesh.
Rev
20:1 I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the
abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Rev
20:2 He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and
Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a
thousand years,
Rev
20:3 and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over
him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand
years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
Rev
20:4 I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to
them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the
testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't
worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their
forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a
thousand years.
Rev
20:5 The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were
finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev
20:6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection.
Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests
of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
Rev
20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his
prison,
Rev
20:8 and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the
four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to
the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev
20:9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the
camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of
heaven from God, and devoured them.
Rev
20:10 The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire
and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will
be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Rev
20:11 I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose
face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for
them.
Rev
20:12 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the
throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the
book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were
written in the books, according to their works.
Rev
20:13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave
up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to
his works.
Rev
20:14 Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the
second death, the lake of fire.
Rev
20:15 If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was
cast into the lake of fire.
