1 En ek het 'n nuwe hemel en 'n nuwe aarde gesien, want die eerste hemel en die eerste aarde het verbygegaan; en die see was daar nie meer nie.
2 En ek, Johannes, het die heilige stad, die nuwe Jerusalem, sien neerdaal van God uit die hemel, toeberei soos 'n bruid wat vir haar man versier is.
3 En ek het 'n groot stem uit die hemel hoor sê: Kyk, die tabernakel van God is by die mense, en Hy sal by hulle woon, en hulle sal sy volk wees; en God self sal by hulle wees as hulle God.
4 En God sal al die trane van hulle oë afvee, en daar sal geen dood meer wees nie; ook droefheid en geween en moeite sal daar nie meer wees nie, want die eerste dinge het verbygegaan.
5 En Hy wat op die troon sit, het gesê: Kyk, Ek maak alles nuut. En Hy het aan my gesê: Skryf, want hierdie woorde is waaragtig en betroubaar.
6 En Hy het vir my gesê: Dit is verby! Ek is die Alfa en die Om,ga, die begin en die einde. Aan die dorstige sal Ek gee uit die fontein van die water van die lewe, verniet.
7 Hy wat oorwin, sal alles beërwe; en Ek sal vir hom 'n God wees, en hy sal vir My 'n seun wees.
8 Maar wat die vreesagtiges aangaan en die ongelowiges en gruwelikes en moordenaars en hoereerders en towenaars en afgodedienaars en al die leuenaars hulle deel is in die poel wat brand met vuur en swawel: dit is die tweede dood.
9 En een van die sewe engele wat die sewe skale gehad het, vol van die sewe laaste plae, het na my gekom en met my gespreek en gesê: Kom hierheen, ek sal jou die bruid toon, die vrou van die Lam.
10 En hy het my in die gees weggevoer op 'n groot en hoë berg en my die groot stad getoon, die heilige Jerusalem, wat uit die hemel van God neerdaal;
11 en dit het die heerlikheid van God gehad, en sy lig was soos 'n baie kosbare steen, soos die kristalhelder jaspissteen.
12 En dit het 'n groot en hoë muur met twaalf poorte gehad, en by die poorte twaalf engele, en name daarop geskrywe, naamlik die van die twaalf stamme van die kinders van Israel.
13 Aan die oostekant was daar drie poorte, aan die noordekant drie poorte, aan die suidekant drie poorte, aan die westekant drie poorte.
14 En die muur van die stad het twaalf fondamente gehad, en daarop was die name van die twaalf apostels van die Lam.
15 En hy wat met my gespreek het, het 'n goue meetroede gehad, om die stad en sy poorte en sy muur te meet.
16 En die stad het vierkantig gelê, en sy lengte was net so groot as sy breedte. En hy het die stad met die meetroede gemeet op duisend vyf honderd myl; sy lengte en breedte en hoogte was gelyk.
17 En hy het sy muur gemeet op honderd vier en veertig el, volgens 'n mens se maat, wat die maat van 'n engel is.
18 En die boustof van sy muur was jaspis, en die stad was suiwer goud soos suiwer glas.
19 En die fondamente van die muur van die stad was versierd met allerhande edelgesteentes. Die eerste fondament was jaspis, die tweede saffier, die derde chalcedoon, die vierde smarag;
20 die vyfde sardoniks, die sesde sardius, die sewende chrisoliet, die agtste beril, die negende topaas, die tiende chr¡sopraas, die elfde hias¡nt, die twaalfde amet¡s.
21 En die twaalf poorte was twaalf pêrels; elkeen van die poorte was uit een pêrel, en die straat van die stad was suiwer goud soos deurskynende glas.
22 En 'n tempel het ek nie daarin gesien nie, want die Here God, die Almagtige, is sy tempel, en die Lam.
23 En die stad het die son of die maan nie nodig om in hom te skyn nie, want die heerlikheid van God het hom verlig, en die Lam is sy lamp.
24 En die nasies van die wat gered word, sal in die lig daarvan wandel, en die konings van die aarde bring hulle heerlikheid en eer daarin.
25 En bedags want nag sal daar nie meer wees nie sal sy poorte nooit gesluit word nie;
26 en hulle sal die heerlikheid en die eer van die nasies daarin bring.
27 En daarin sal nie inkom iets wat verontreinig en gruwelikheid en leuens doen nie; maar net die wat geskrywe is in die boek van die lewe van die Lam.
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.
2 And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.
3 And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.
4 And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.
5 And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.
6 And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.
7 He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
9 And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels in which were the seven last punishments, came and said to me, Come here, and see the bride, the Lamb's wife.
10 And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:
12 She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.
13 And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors.
14 And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
15 And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall.
16 And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.
17 And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
18 And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.
19 The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
21 And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.
22 And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.
23 And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
24 And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it.
25 And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there):
26 And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it:
27 And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.