1I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood there and said, "Get up, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and those who worship there."
2"But leave out the court that is outside the temple. Do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample the holy city under foot for forty-two months."
3"And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for a thousand two hundred and sixty days, dressed in sackcloth."
4These are the two olive trees, and the two lampstands that stand before the God of the earth.
5If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and destroys their enemies. If anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
6These have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days of their prophesying. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they want.
7When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the bottomless pit will make war against them. He will defeat them and kill them.
8Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9People from many peoples and tribes and languages and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days. They will not allow their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10Those who live on the earth will be glad about them, and will celebrate, and will send gifts to one another. For these two prophets had tormented those who lived on the earth.
11After three and a half days the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood up on their feet. Great fear fell on those who saw them.
12And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.
13At that very hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake. The rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14The second woe is past. Look, the third woe is coming quickly.
15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever."
16And the twenty-four elders, who sat before God on their thrones, fell on their faces and worshipped God,
17saying, "We give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty, who is, and who was, and who is to come, because you have taken your great power to yourself, and have begun to reign."
18"The nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time to give reward to your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear your name, small and great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth."
19Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and voices, and thunder, and an earthquake, and great hail.