Revelation 19–22

Threefold Hallelujah Over Babylon’s Fall

19After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude^v in heaven shouting:

“Hallelujah!^w

Salvation^x and glory and power^y belong to our God,

²for true and just are his judgments.^z

He has condemned the great prostitute^a

who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.

He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”^b

³And again they shouted:

“Hallelujah!^c

The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.”^d

⁴The twenty-four elders^e and the four living creatures^f fell down^g and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried:

“Amen, Hallelujah!”^h

⁵Then a voice came from the throne, saying:

“Praise our God,

all you his servants,ⁱ

you who fear him,

both great and small!”^j

⁶Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude,^k like the roar of rushing waters^l and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:

“Hallelujah!^m

For our Lord God Almightyⁿ reigns.^o

⁷Let us rejoice and be glad

and give him glory!^p

For the wedding of the Lamb^q has come,

and his bride^r has made herself ready.

⁸Fine linen,^s bright and clean,

was given her to wear.”

(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts^t of God’s holy people.)

⁹Then the angel said to me,^u “Write this:^v Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!”^w And he added, “These are the true words of God.”^x

¹⁰At this I fell at his feet to worship him.^y But he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!^z For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.”^a

The Heavenly Warrior Defeats the Beast

¹¹I saw heaven standing open^b and there before me was a white horse, whose rider^c is called Faithful and True.^d With justice he judges and wages war.^{e 12}His eyes are like blazing fire,^f and on his head are many crowns.^g He has a name written on him^h that no one knows but he himself.^{i 13}He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood,^j and his name is the Word of God.^{k 14}The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen,^l white^m and clean. ¹⁵Coming out of his mouth is a sharp swordⁿ with which to strike down^o the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”^ap He treads the winepress^q of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. ¹⁶On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:^r

king of kings and lord of lords.^s

¹⁷And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds^t flying in midair,^u “Come,^v gather together for the great supper of God,^{w 18}so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people,^x free and slave,^y great and small.”^z

¹⁹Then I saw the beast^a and the kings of the earth^b and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse^c and his army. ²⁰But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet^d who had performed the signs^e on its behalf.^f With these signs he had deluded^g those who had received the mark of the beast^h and worshiped its image.ⁱ The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake^j of burning sulfur.^{k 21}The rest were killed with the sword^l coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse,^m and all the birdsⁿ gorged themselves on their flesh.

The Thousand Years

20And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven,^o having the key^p to the Abyss^q and holding in his hand a great chain. ²He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan,^r and bound him for a thousand years.^{s 3}He threw him into the Abyss,^t and locked and sealed^u it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations^v anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

⁴I saw thrones^w on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge.^x And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded^y because of their testimony about Jesus^z and because of the word of God.^a They^a had not worshiped the beast^b or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands.^c They came to life and reigned^d with Christ a thousand years. ⁵(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.^{e 6}Blessed^f and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death^g has no power over them, but they will be priests^h of God and of Christ and will reign with himⁱ for a thousand years.

The Judgment of Satan

⁷When the thousand years are over,^j Satan will be released from his prison ⁸and will go out to deceive the nations^k in the four corners of the earth^l—Gog and Magog^m—and to gather them for battle.ⁿ In number they are like the sand on the seashore.^{o 9}They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded^p the camp of God’s people, the city he loves.^q But fire came down from heaven^r and devoured them. ¹⁰And the devil, who deceived them,^s was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,^t where the beast^u and the false prophet^v had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.^w

The Judgment of the Dead

¹¹Then I saw a great white throne^x and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence,^y and there was no place for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, great and small,^z standing before the throne, and books were opened.^a Another book was opened, which is the book of life.^b The dead were judged^c according to what they had done^d as recorded in the books. ¹³The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades^e gave up the dead^f that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.^{g 14}Then death^h and Hadesⁱ were thrown into the lake of fire.^j The lake of fire is the second death.^{k 15}Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life^l was thrown into the lake of fire.

A New Heaven and a New Earth

21Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”^am for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,ⁿ and there was no longer any sea. ²I saw the Holy City,^o the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,^p prepared as a bride^q beautifully dressed for her husband. ³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them.^r They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.^{s 4}‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes.^t There will be no more death’^bu or mourning or crying or pain,^v for the old order of things has passed away.”^w

⁵He who was seated on the throne^x said, “I am making everything new!”^y Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”^z

⁶He said to me: “It is done.^a I am the Alpha and the Omega,^b the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost^c from the spring of the water of life.^{d 7}Those who are victorious^e will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.^{f 8}But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars^g—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.^h This is the second death.”ⁱ

The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

⁹One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues^j came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride,^k the wife of the Lamb.” ¹⁰And he carried me away^l in the Spirit^m to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.^{n 11}It shone with the glory of God,^o and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper,^p clear as crystal.^{q 12}It had a great, high wall with twelve gates,^r and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.^{s 13}There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. ¹⁴The wall of the city had twelve foundations,^t and on them were the names of the twelve apostles^u of the Lamb.

¹⁵The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod^v of gold to measure the city, its gates^w and its walls. ¹⁶The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia^c in length, and as wide and high as it is long. ¹⁷The angel measured the wall using human^x measurement, and it was 144 cubits^d thick.^{e 18}The wall was made of jasper,^y and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.^{z 19}The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone.^a The first foundation was jasper,^b the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, ²⁰the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby,^c the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.^{f 21}The twelve gates^d were twelve pearls,^e each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.^f

²²I did not see a temple^g in the city, because the Lord God Almighty^h and the Lambⁱ are its temple. ²³The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God^j gives it light,^k and the Lamb^l is its lamp. ²⁴The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.^{m 25}On no day will its gatesⁿ ever be shut,^o for there will be no night there.^{p 26}The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.^{q 27}Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,^r but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.^s

Eden Restored

22Then the angel showed me the river^t of the water of life,^u as clear as crystal,^v flowing^w from the throne of God and of the Lamb ²down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life,^x bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.^{y 3}No…