12 “For this reason, arejoice, O heavens and byou who 1dwell in them. cWoe to the earth and the sea, because dthe devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only ea short time.”

13 And when the adragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted bthe woman who gave birth to the male child.

14 But the atwo wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly binto the wilderness to her place, where she * was nourished for ca time and times and half a time, from the 1presence of the serpent.

15 And the aserpent 1poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.

16 1But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon 2poured out of his mouth.

17 So the dragon was enraged with the woman, and went off to amake war with the rest of her 1bchildren, who ckeep the commandments of God and dhold to the testimony of Jesus.