1 En 'n riet soos 'n stok is aan my gegee, en die engel het gestaan en gesê: Staan op en meet die tempel van God en die altaar en die wat daarin aanbid.

2 Maar die voorhof buitekant die tempel moet jy uitlaat en dit nie meet nie, want dit is aan die heidene gegee; en hulle sal die heilige stad twee en veertig maande lank vertrap.

3 En Ek sal aan my twee getuies gee dat hulle, met sakke bekleed, duisend twee honderd en sestig dae lank sal profeteer.

4 Hulle is die twee olyfbome en die twee kandelaars wat voor die God van die aarde staan.

5 En as iemand hulle wil beskadig, gaan daar vuur uit hulle mond en verslind hulle vyande; en as iemand hulle wil beskadig, moet hy op dieselfde manier gedood word.

6 Hulle het mag om die hemel te sluit, sodat daar in die dae van hulle profesie geen reën val nie; en hulle het mag oor die waters, om dit in bloed te verander en om die aarde te tref met allerhande plae so dikwels as hulle wil.

7 En wanneer hulle hul getuienis voleindig het, sal die dier wat uit die afgrond opkom, teen hulle oorlog voer en hulle oorwin en hulle doodmaak;

8 en hulle lyke sal lê op die straat van die groot stad wat geestelik genoem word Sodom en Egipte, waar ook onse Here gekruisig is.

9 En mense uit die volke en stamme en tale en nasies sal hulle lyke drie en 'n halwe dag lank sien en nie toelaat dat hulle lyke in die graf gelê word nie.

10 Die bewoners van die aarde sal bly en verheug wees oor hulle en sal vir mekaar geskenke stuur, omdat die twee profete die bewoners van die aarde gepynig het.

11 En n die drie en 'n halwe dag het 'n gees van die lewe uit God in hulle ingegaan, en hulle het op hul voete gaan staan, en 'n groot vrees het geval op die wat hulle aanskou het.

12 En hulle het 'n groot stem uit die hemel vir hulle hoor sê: Kom op hierheen! En hulle het opgevaar na die hemel in die wolk, en hul vyande het hulle aanskou.

13 En in die uur het daar 'n groot aardbewing gekom, en 'n tiende van die stad het geval, en sewe duisend mense het in die aardbewing omgekom, en die ander het bevrees geword en aan die God van die hemel heerlikheid toegebring.

14 Die tweede wee het verbygegaan; kyk, die derde kom gou.

15 En die sewende engel het geblaas, en daar was groot stemme in die hemel wat sê: Die koninkryke van die wêreld het die eiendom van onse Here geword en van sy Christus, en Hy sal as Koning heers tot in alle ewigheid.

16 En die vier en twintig ouderlinge wat voor God op hulle trone sit, het op hulle aangesig geval en God aanbid en gesê:

17 Ons dank U, Here God, Almagtige, wat is en wat was en wat kom, dat U u groot mag aangeneem en as koning geheers het.

18 En die nasies was vertoornd, en u toorn het gekom en die tyd van die dode om geoordeel te word en om die loon te gee aan u diensknegte, die profete, en aan die heiliges en aan die wat u Naam vrees, klein en groot, en om die verderwers van die aarde te verderf.

19 En die tempel van God het in die hemel oopgegaan, en sy verbondsark is in sy tempel gesien, en daar was weerligte en stemme en donderslae en aardbewing en groot hael.

1 And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it.

2 But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.

3 And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

4 These are the two olive-trees and the two lights, which are before the Lord of the earth.

5 And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death.

6 These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.

7 And when they have come to the end of their witness, the beast which comes up out of the great deep will make war on them and overcome them and put them to death.

8 And their dead bodies will be in the open street of the great town, which in the spirit is named Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was put to death on the cross.

9 And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will be looking on their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not let their dead bodies be put in the earth.

10 And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.

11 And after three days and a half the breath of life from God went into them, and they got up on their feet; and great fear came on those who saw them.

12 And a great voice from heaven came to their ears, saying to them, Come up here. And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and were seen by those desiring their death.

13 And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second Trouble is past: see, the third Trouble comes quickly.

15 And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.

16 And the four and twenty rulers, who are seated before God on their high seats, went down on their faces and gave worship to God, saying,

17 We give you praise, O Lord God, Ruler of all, who is and who was; because you have taken up your great power and are ruling your kingdom.

18 And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.

19 And the house of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a rain of ice.