The Two Witnesses

¹ And a measuring rod similar in appearance to a staff was given to me, saying, “Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it.

² And leave out the courtyard outside of the temple, and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample the holy city for forty two months.

³ And I will grant authority¹ to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth.”

1. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation

⁴ These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

⁵ And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, in this way he must be killed.

⁶ These have the authority to shut the sky, so that ⌞it does not rain⌟¹ during the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters, to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they wish.

1. Literally “it does not rain rain”; the redundancy is removed in the translation

⁷ And when they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war with them and will conquer them and will kill them.

⁸ And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is called symbolically Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

⁹ And those from peoples and tribes and languages and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb.

¹⁰ And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them, and will celebrate and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.

¹¹ And after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

¹² And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here,” and they went up into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.

¹³ And at that hour a great earthquake took place, and a tenth of the city collapsed, and seven thousand ⌞people⌟¹ were killed by the earthquake, and the rest became terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

1. Literally “names of men”

¹⁴ The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly!

The Blowing of the Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵ And the seventh angel blew the trumpet, and there was a loud voice in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign ⌞forever and ever⌟¹.”

1. Literally “for the ages of the ages”

¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God fell down on their faces and worshiped God,

¹⁷ saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God All-Powerful, the one who is and the one who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.

¹⁸ And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give their¹ reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

1. *Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun

¹⁹ And the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple, and there were lightnings and sounds and thunders and an earthquake and large hail.¹

1. Or “a great hailstorm”