| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After this I heard something like the loud voice of a vast multitude in heaven, saying: Hallelujah! Salvation, glory, and power belong to our God, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2because His judgments are true and righteous, because He has judged the notorious prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality; and He has avenged the blood of His slaves that was on her hands. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A second time they said: Hallelujah! Her smoke ascends forever and ever! |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who is seated on the throne, saying: Amen! Hallelujah! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5A voice came from the throne, saying: Praise our God, all His slaves, who fear Him, both small and great! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then I heard something like the voice of a vast multitude, like the sound of cascading waters, and like the rumbling of loud thunder, saying: Hallelujah, because our Lord God, the Almighty, has begun to reign! |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Let us be glad, rejoice, and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8She was given fine linen to wear, bright and pure. For the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the saints. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Then he said to me, "Write: Those invited to the marriage feast of the Lamb are fortunate!" He also said to me, "These words of God are true." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow slave with you and your brothers who have the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. Its rider is called Faithful and True, and He judges and makes war in righteousness. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12His eyes were like a fiery flame, and many crowns were on His head. He had a name written that no one knows except Himself. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He wore a robe stained with blood, and His name is the Word of God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The armies that were in heaven followed Him on white horses, wearing pure white linen. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15A sharp sword came from His mouth, so that He might strike the nations with it. He will shepherd them with an iron scepter. He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God, the Almighty. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice, saying to all the birds flying high overhead, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Then I saw the beast, the kings of the earth, and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and against His army. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20But the beast was taken prisoner, and along with him the false prophet, who had performed the signs in his presence. He deceived those who accepted the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image with these signs. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh. |
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