1 Depois disso vi quatro anjos de pé nos quatro cantos da terra, retendo os quatro ventos, para impedir que qualquer vento soprasse na terra, no mar ou em qualquer árvore.2 Então vi outro anjo subindo do Oriente, tendo o selo do Deus vivo. Ele bradou em alta voz aos quatro anjos a quem havia sido dado poder para danificar a terra e o mar:3 "Não danifiquem nem a terra, nem o mar nem as árvores, até que selemos as testas dos servos do nosso Deus".4 Então ouvi o número dos que foram selados: cento e quarenta e quatro mil, de todas as tribos de Israel.5 Da tribo de Judá foram selados doze mil, da tribo de Rúben, doze mil, da tribo de Gade, doze mil,6 da tribo de Aser, doze mil, da tribo de Naftali, doze mil, da tribo de Manassés, doze mil,7 da tribo de Simeão, doze mil, da tribo de Levi, doze mil, da tribo de Issacar, doze mil,8 da tribo de Zebulom, doze mil, da tribo de José, doze mil, da tribo de Benjamim, doze mil.9 Depois disso olhei, e diante de mim estava uma grande multidão que ninguém podia contar, de todas as nações, tribos, povos e línguas, de pé, diante do trono e do Cordeiro, com vestes brancas e segurando palmas.10 E clamavam em alta voz: "A salvação pertence ao nosso Deus, que se assenta no trono, e ao Cordeiro".11 Todos os anjos estavam de pé ao redor do trono, dos anciãos e dos quatro seres viventes. Eles se prostraram com o rosto em terra diante do trono e adoraram a Deus,12 dizendo: "Amém! Louvor e glória, sabedoria, ação de graças, honra, poder e força sejam ao nosso Deus para todo o sempre. Amém! "13 Então um dos anciãos me perguntou: "Quem são estes que estão vestidos de branco, e de onde vieram? "14 Respondi: "Senhor, tu o sabes". E ele disse: "Estes são os que vieram da grande tribulação e lavaram as suas vestes e as branquearam no sangue do Cordeiro.15 Por isso, eles estão diante do trono de Deus e o servem dia e noite em seu santuário; e aquele que está assentado no trono estenderá sobre eles o seu tabernáculo.16 Nunca mais terão fome, nunca mais terão sede. Não cairá sobre eles sol, e nenhum calor abrasador,17 pois o Cordeiro que está no centro do trono será o seu Pastor; ele os guiará às fontes de água viva. E Deus enxugará dos seus olhos toda lágrima".

1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, and holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind should blow over the earth or the sea or upon any tree.2 And I saw another angel coming from the east and carrying a seal belonging to the ever-living God. He called in a loud voice to the four angels whose work it was to injure the earth and the sea.3 »Injure neither land nor sea nor trees,« he said, »until we have sealed the bondservants of our God upon their foreheads.«4 When the sealing was finished, I heard how many were sealed out of the tribes of the descendants of Israel. They were 144,000.5 Of the tribe of Judah, 12,000 were sealed; Of the tribe of Reuben, 12,000; Of the tribe of Gad, 12,000;6 Of the tribe of Asher, 12,000; Of the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000; Of the tribe of Manasseh, 12,000;7 Of the tribe of Symeon, 12,000; Of the tribe of Levi, 12,000; Of the tribe of Issachar, 12,000;8 Of the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000; Of the tribe of Joseph, 12,000; Of the tribe of Benjamin, 12,000.9 After this I looked, and a vast host appeared which it was impossible for anyone to count, gathered out of every nation and from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in long white robes, and carrying palm-branches in their hands.10 In loud voices they were exclaiming, »It is to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb, that we owe our salvation!«11 All the angels were standing in a circle round the throne and round the Elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God.12 »Even so!« they cried:»The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanks and the honor and the power and the might are to be ascribed to our God, until the Ages of the Ages! Even so!«13 Then, addressing me, one of the Elders said, »Who are these people clothed in the long white robes? And where have they come from?«14 »My lord, you know,« I replied. »They are those,« he said, »who have just passed through the great distress, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.15 For this reason they stand before the very throne of God, and render Him service, day after day and night after night, in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne will shelter them in His tent.16 They will never again be hungry or thirsty, and never again will the sun or any scorching heat trouble them.17 For the Lamb who is in front of the throne will be their Shepherd, and will guide them to watersprings of Life, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.«