Revelation 11 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Two Witnesses

Rev 11:1Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told: "Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,

Rev 11:2

Rev 11:2but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy city for forty-two months.

Rev 11:3

Rev 11:3And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

Rev 11:4

Rev 11:4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth.

Rev 11:5

Rev 11:5And if any one would harm them, fire pours out from their mouth and consumes their foes; if any one would harm them, thus he is doomed to be killed.

Rev 11:6

Rev 11:6They have power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.

Rev 11:7

Rev 11:7And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends from the bottomless pit will make war upon them and conquer them and kill them,

Rev 11:8

Rev 11:8and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is allegorically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

Rev 11:9

Rev 11:9For three days and a half men from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,

Rev 11:10

Rev 11:10and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.

Rev 11:11

Rev 11:11But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

Rev 11:12

Rev 11:12Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up hither!" And in the sight of their foes they went up to heaven in a cloud.

Rev 11:13

Rev 11:13And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Rev 11:14

Rev 11:14The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

The Seventh Trumpet--Christ's Reign Foreseen

Rev 11:15

Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever."

Rev 11:16

Rev 11:16And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,

Rev 11:17

Rev 11:17saying, "We give thanks to thee, Lord God Almighty, who art and who wast, that thou hast taken thy great power and begun to reign.

Rev 11:18

Rev 11:18The nations raged, but thy wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, for rewarding thy servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear thy name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."

Rev 11:19

Rev 11:19Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple; and there were flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

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Revelation 11 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Two Witnesses

The Seventh Trumpet--Christ's Reign Foreseen

Pericope

Revelation Chapter 11 — Additional Translations:

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