Revelation

以色列人十四万四千被印

1此后，我看见四位天使站在地的四角，执掌地上四方的风，叫风不吹在地上、海上，和树上。

2我又看见另有一位天使，从日出之地上来，拿着永生 神的印。他就向那得着权柄能伤害地和海的四位天使大声喊着说：

3「地与海并树木，你们不可伤害，等我们印了我们 神众仆人的额。」

4我听见以色列人各支派中受印的数目有十四万四千。

5犹大支派中受印的有一万二千；吕便支派中有一万二千；迦得支派中有一万二千；

6亚设支派中有一万二千；拿弗他利支派中有一万二千；玛拿西支派中有一万二千；

7西缅支派中有一万二千；利未支派中有一万二千；以萨迦支派中有一万二千；

8西布伦支派中有一万二千；约瑟支派中有一万二千；便雅悯支派中受印的有一万二千。

无数的人从各国各族而来

9此后，我观看，见有许多的人，没有人能数过来，是从各国、各族、各民、各方来的，站在宝座和羔羊面前，身穿白衣，手拿棕树枝，

10大声喊着说：「愿救恩归与坐在宝座上我们的 神，也归与羔羊！」

11众天使都站在宝座和众长老并四活物的周围，在宝座前，面伏于地，敬拜 神，

12说：阿们！颂赞、荣耀、智慧、 感谢、尊贵、权柄、大力 都归与我们的 神， 直到永永远远。阿们！

13长老中有一位问我说：「这些穿白衣的是谁？是从哪里来的？」

14我对他说：「我主，你知道。」他向我说：「这些人是从大患难中出来的，曾用羔羊的血把衣裳洗白净了。

15所以，他们在 神宝座前，昼夜在他殿中事奉他。坐宝座的要用帐幕覆庇他们。

16他们不再饥，不再渴；日头和炎热也必不伤害他们。

17因为宝座中的羔羊必牧养他们，领他们到生命水的泉源； 神也必擦去他们一切的眼泪。」

144,000 Sealed

1After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.

2And I saw another angel ascending from the east, with the seal of the living God. And he called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:

3“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have placed a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

4And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:

5From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000,

6from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,

7from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,

8from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

Praise from the Great Multitude

9After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

10And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God,who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

11And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,

12saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

13Then one of the elders addressed me: “These in white robes,” he asked, “who are they, and where have they come from?”

14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

15For this reason, they are before the throne of Godand serve Him day and night in His temple;and the One seated on the thronewill spread His tabernacle over them.

16‘Never again will they hunger,and never will they thirst;nor will the sun beat down upon them,nor any scorching heat.’

17For the Lamb in the center of the thronewill be their shepherd.‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”