Revelation 10:9-12:17

English Standard Version

⁹ So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, ^(A)“Take and ^(B)eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” ¹⁰ And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter. ¹¹ And I was told, ^(C)“You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”

The Two Witnesses

11 Then I was given ^(D)a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, ² but do not measure ^(E)the court outside the temple; leave that out, for ^(F)it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for ^(G)forty-two months. ³ And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for ^(H)1,260 days, ^(I)clothed in sackcloth.”

⁴ These are ^(J)the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. ⁵ And if anyone would harm them, ^(K)fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, ^(L)this is how he is doomed to be killed. ⁶ They have the power ^(M)to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and ^(N)to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. ⁷ And when they have finished their testimony, ^(O)the beast that rises from ^(P)the bottomless pit^{[a] (Q)}will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, ⁸ and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically^[b] is called ^(R)Sodom and ^(S)Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. ⁹ For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and ^(T)refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, ¹⁰ and ^(U)those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and ^(V)exchange presents, because these two prophets ^(W)had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. ¹¹ But after the three and a half days ^(X)a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. ¹² Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, ^(Y)“Come up here!” And ^(Z)they went up to heaven ^(AA)in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. ¹³ And at that hour there was ^(AB)a great earthquake, and ^(AC)a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and ^(AD)gave glory to ^(AE)the God of heaven.

^14 (AF)The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

The Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵ Then ^(AG)the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and ^(AH)there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ^(AI)“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of ^(AJ)his Christ, and ^(AK)he shall reign forever and ever.” ¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders ^(AL)who sit on their thrones before God ^(AM)fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying,

¹⁹ Then ^(AT)God's temple in heaven was opened, and ^(AU)the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings,^[c] peals of thunder, an earthquake, and ^(AV)heavy hail.

The Woman and the Dragon

12 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman ^(AW)clothed with ^(AX)the sun, with ^(AY)the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. ² She was pregnant and ^(AZ)was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. ³ And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great ^(BA)red dragon, ^(BB)with seven heads and ^(BC)ten horns, and on his heads ^(BD)seven diadems. ⁴ His tail swept down ^(BE)a third of the stars of heaven and ^(BF)cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child ^(BG)he might devour it. ⁵ She gave birth to a male child, ^(BH)one who is to rule^[d] all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was ^(BI)caught up to God and to his throne, ⁶ and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for ^(BJ)1,260 days.

Satan Thrown Down to Earth

⁷ Now war arose in heaven, ^(BK)Michael and ^(BL)his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back, ⁸ but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. ⁹ And ^(BM)the great dragon was thrown down, ^(BN)that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, ^(BO)the deceiver of the whole world—^(BP)he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. ¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now ^(BQ)the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers^[e] has been thrown down, ^(BR)who accuses them day and night before our God. ¹¹ And ^(BS)they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for ^(BT)they loved not their lives ^(BU)even unto death. ¹² Therefore, ^(BV)rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But ^(BW)woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because ^(BX)he knows that his time is short!”

¹³ And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued ^(BY)the woman who had given birth to the male child. ¹⁴ But the woman was given the two ^(BZ)wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent ^(CA)into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished ^(CB)for a time, and times, and half a time. ¹⁵ The serpent poured water ^(CC)like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood. ¹⁶ But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth. ¹⁷ Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off ^(CD)to make war on the rest of ^(CE)her offspring, ^(CF)on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to ^(CG)the testimony of Jesus. And he stood^[f] on the sand of the sea.