I also heard a sound<n id="1" /> coming out of heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. Now<n id="2" /> the sound I heard was like that made by harpists playing their harps,

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> I looked, and a white cloud appeared,<n id="2" /> and seated <i>on the cloud was one like a son of man!i><n id="3" /> He had<n id="4" /> a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

<p class="poetry">Who will not fear you, O Lord,p> <p class="poetry">and glorify<n id="1" /> your name, because you alone are holy?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All nations<n id="3" /> will come and worship before youp> <p class="poetry">for your righteous acts<n id="4" /> have been revealed.&#8221;p>

five have fallen; one is,<n id="1" /> and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.

They will make war with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those accompanying<n id="1" /> the Lamb are the called, chosen, and faithful.&#8221;p>

Repay her the same way she repaid others;<n id="1" /> pay her back double<n id="2" /> corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.

For this reason, she will experience her plagues<n id="1" /> in a single day: disease,<n id="2" /> mourning,<n id="3" /> and famine, and she will be burned down<n id="4" /> with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">because in a single hour such great wealth has been destroyed!&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">And every ship&#8217;s captain,<n id="2" /> and all who sail along the coast<n id="3" /> &#8211; seamen, and all who<n id="4" /> make their living from the sea, stood a long way off

The angel<n id="1" /> then<n id="2" /> threw him into the abyss and locked<n id="3" /> and sealed it so that he could not deceive the nations until the one thousand years were finished. (After these things he must be released for a brief period of time.)p>

He<n id="1" /> will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more &#8211; or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">And the one seated on the throne said: &#8220;Look! I am making all things new!&#8221; Then<n id="1" /> he said to me, &#8220;Write it down,<n id="2" /> because these words are reliable<n id="3" /> and true.&#8221;

Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.p>

Therefore,<n id="1" /> repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people<n id="2" /> with the sword of my mouth.

Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness,<n id="1" /> and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering,<n id="2" /> unless they repent of her deeds.

Wake up then, and strengthen what remains that was about<n id="1" /> to die, because I have not found your deeds complete<n id="2" /> in the sight<n id="3" /> of my God.

And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice: &#8220;Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?&#8221;

They had breastplates<n id="1" /> like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.

Then<n id="1" /> he shouted in a loud voice like a lion roaring, and when he shouted, the seven thunders sounded their voices.

The<n id="1" /> beast that was, and is not, is himself an eighth king and yet is one of the seven, and is going to destruction.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the angel<n id="2" /> said to me, &#8220;The waters you saw (where the prostitute is seated) are peoples, multitudes,<n id="3" /> nations, and languages.