1 Then I saw another great and awe-inspiring sign  * 15:1 Or and awesome symbolic display in heaven:  * 15:1 Mt 16:1; 24:30; Lk 21:11; Ac 2:19; Rv 12:1,3; 13:13 seven angels with the seven last plagues; for with them God’s wrath will be completed.  * 15:1 Jn 19:30; Rv 10:7; 16:17; 17:172 I also saw something like a sea of glass  * 15:2 Rv 4:6 mixed with fire, and those who had won the victory over the beast, its image,  * 15:2 Other mss add his mark and the number of its name, were standing on the sea of glass with harps from God.  * 15:2 Rv 5:8; 14:23 They sang the song of God’s servant Moses  * 15:3 Ex 15:1; Dt 31:22 and the song of the Lamb:

Great and awe-inspiring are your works,

Lord God, the Almighty;

just and true  * 15:3 Rv 16:7; 19:2 are your ways,

King of the nations.  * 15:3 Other mss read ages,* 15:3 Dn 2:37; Lk 22:25; 1Tm 6:15; Rv 17:14; 19:16

4 Lord, who will not fear

and glorify your name?

For you alone are holy.  * 15:4 Is 8:13

All the nations will come

and worship before you  * 15:4 Ps 86:9; 113:4; Is 52:10; 61:11; Jr 3:17; 33:9

because your righteous acts

have been revealed.

5 After this I looked, and the heavenly temple — the tabernacle of testimony  * 15:5 Ex 38:21; Nm 17:7; 18:2  — was opened.  * 15:5 Rv 11:196 Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes wrapped around their chests. 7 One of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.  * 15:7 Ex 15:18; Ps 10:16; 45:6; 48:14; Gl 1:5; Eph 3:21; Php 4:20; 1Tm 1:17; 2Tm 4:18; Heb 1:8; 13:21; 1Pt 4:11; Rv 1:6,18; 4:9–10; 5:13; 7:12; 10:6; 11:158 Then the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power,  * 15:8 Ex 19:18; 20:18; Is 4:5; 6:4 and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.