12And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars, ²and who was pregnant^a and was crying out because she^* was having birth pains, and was in torment to give birth. ³And another sign appeared in heaven, and behold, a great fiery red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven royal headbands.^b ⁴And his tail swept away a third of the stars from heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, in order that whenever she gave birth to her child he could devour it. ⁵And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod,^c and her child was snatched away to God and to his throne. ⁶And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared there by God, so that they could feed her there for one thousand two hundred sixty days.

Satan Thrown Down from Heaven to Earth

⁷And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against^d the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back^e. ⁸And they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven. ⁹And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

¹⁰And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,

“Now the salvation and the power

and the kingdom of our God

and the authority of his Christ have come,

because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down,

the one who accuses them before our God day and night.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “who was having in the belly”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was having birth pains”) which is understood as causal
bOr “diadem crowns”
cAn allusion to Ps 2:9
dLiterally “made war with”
eLiterally “made war”