Revelation 14

¹ I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000, who had his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.

² I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of a great thunderclap; the voice I heard was like harpists playing their harps.

³ They were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; no one could learn the song except the 144,000, those who had been bought from the earth.

⁴ These are the ones who did not defile themselves with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were bought from among the people as firstfruits for God and the Lamb.

⁵ No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

⁶ I saw another angel flying in midheaven, carrying an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

⁷ He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come; worship the one who made heaven, earth, the sea, and the springs of water.”

⁸ Another angel, a second one, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, which made all nations drink the wine of the fury of her sexual immorality.”

⁹ Another angel, a third one, followed them, saying in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on the forehead or the hand,

¹⁰ that person will also drink the wine of God's fury, poured undiluted into the cup of his wrath, and will be tormented with fire and sulfur before the holy angels and before the Lamb.”

¹¹ “The smoke of their torment rises forever and ever; those who worship the beast and its image, and anyone who receives the mark of its name, have no rest day or night.”

¹² Here is the perseverance of the saints: those who keep God's commandments and their faith in Jesus.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “so they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them.”

¹⁴ I looked, and there was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was someone like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.

¹⁵ Another angel came out of the sanctuary, calling in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, “Send out your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”

¹⁶ Then the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

¹⁷ Another angel came out of the sanctuary in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

¹⁸ Another angel, the one with authority over the fire, came out from the altar and called in a loud voice to the one with the sharp sickle, “Send out your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”

¹⁹ Then the angel swung his sickle over the earth, gathered the grapes from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great winepress of God's fury.

²⁰ The winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress as high as the horses' bridles, for 1,600 stadia.

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