1 And I looked, and there was a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his Father's name written on their foreheads.
2 I heard a sound out of heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of a great thunder; and I heard the sound of harpers harping on their harps.
3 And they are singing what seems a new song in front of the throne and in front of the four living creatures and the elders; and nobody was able to learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been bought from the earth.
4 These are those who did not soil themselves with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones following the Lamb wherever he may go. These were bought from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.
5 No guile was found in their mouth, for they are faultless before the throne of God.
6 And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven with an everlasting gospel to announce to those who live on the earth—to every nation and tribe and language and people—
7 and he was saying in a loud voice, "Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment has arrived; and bow down before the One who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and springs of waters."
8 Then another angel followed, saying, "Babylon has fallen, has fallen, the great city, since she has made all the nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."
9 A third angel followed them, calling out with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and its image, and takes a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
10 he himself will also drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur before the holy angels and before the Lamb.
11 The smoke of their torment rises to ages of ages; and those who worship the beast and its image have no rest day and night—they and anyone who takes the mark of its name."
12 Here is the endurance of the saints: here are they who keep God's commandments and the faith of Jesus.
13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from this time on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "so that they may rest from their toils; and their works go along with them."
14 And I looked, and there was a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, wearing a crown of gold on his head and holding a sharp sickle in his hand.
15 Then another angel came out from the temple, shouting with a great voice to the one sitting on the cloud, "Swing your sickle and reap, because the hour for you to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth has dried out."
16 And the one sitting on the cloud thrust his sickle onto the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, he also holding a sharp sickle.
18 And yet another angel came out from the altar, having authority over the fire; and he shouted with a great cry to the one holding the sharp sickle, "Swing your sharp sickle and gather in the clusters of the vine of the earth, because its grapes have come to their prime."
19 So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vintage of the earth's vine, and cast it into the great winepress of God's fury.
20 The winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress as high as the horses' bridles, for a stretch of one thousand six hundred stadia.