Revelation 11:1–6

THE TWO WITNESSES

11 Then I was given a measuring reedz like a rod,A with these words: “GoB and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count those who worship there. 2 But exclude the courtyard outside the temple.aa Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations,C,ab and they will trample the holy cityac for forty-two months.ad 3 I will grantD my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”ae 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the LordE of the earth.af 5 If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies;ag if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way. 6 They have authority to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy.a They also have power over the waters to turn them into bloodb and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.c