1 Then a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman wrapped in the sun, the moon beneath her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
2 She was pregnant, and she cries out in her labor pains, in torment to give birth.
3 And another sign appeared in heaven: there was a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon his heads.
4 His tail drags along a third of the stars of heaven, and he flung them down to the earth. And the dragon took his stand in front of the woman who was about to give birth, in order to devour her child the moment she gave birth.
5 And she bore a son, a male, who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
6 The woman fled into the desert, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels made war against the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war,
8 but they were not strong enough, and no place was found for them in heaven anymore.
9 So the great dragon was hurled down—the serpent of old, who is called the devil and Satan, who misleads the whole inhabited world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down along with him.
10 And I heard a great voice in heaven saying, "Now at last the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ, have come about; for the accuser of our brothers, who brings charges against them before our God day and night, has been cast down.
11 They overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life, even in the face of death.
12 So be glad, you heavens, and you who live in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea, because the devil has gone down to you full of rage, knowing that he has but a short time."
13 When the dragon saw that he had been hurled down to the earth, he hunted the woman who had borne the male child.
14 But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the desert, to her own place, where she is fed for a time and times and half a time, away from the presence of the serpent.
15 And from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river after the woman, to have her swept away by the current.
16 But the earth helped the woman; the earth opened its mouth and gulped down the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth.
17 And the dragon grew angry at the woman, and went away to wage war on the remainder of her offspring, those who keep God's commandments and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.