1 Então foi visto no céu um grande sinal: uma mulher vestida do sol, com a lua sob os pés e uma coroa de doze estrelas na cabeça. 2 Estava grávida e gritava por causa das dores de parto e da agonia de dar à luz.

3 Outro sinal foi visto no céu: um enorme dragão vermelho com sete cabeças e dez chifres, e sete coroas nas cabeças. 4 Com a cauda, arrastou um terço das estrelas do céu e as lançou na terra. E, quando a mulher estava para dar à luz, o dragão parou diante dela, pronto para devorar a criança tão logo ela nascesse.

5 A mulher deu à luz um filho, que governará todas as nações com cetro de ferro, e ele foi arrebatado para junto de Deus e de seu trono. 6 A mulher fugiu para o deserto, onde Deus havia preparado um lugar para cuidar dela durante 1.260 dias.

7 Houve guerra no céu. Miguel e seus anjos lutaram contra o dragão e seus anjos. 8 O dragão perdeu a batalha, e ele e seus anjos foram expulsos do céu. 9 Esse enorme dragão, a antiga serpente chamada diabo ou Satanás, que engana o mundo todo, foi lançado na terra com seus anjos.

10 Então ouvi uma forte voz que bradava pelos céus:

"Finalmente chegaram

a salvação, o poder,

o reino de nosso Deus

e a autoridade de seu Cristo.

Porque foi lançado para a terra

o acusador de nossos irmãos,

aquele que dia e noite os acusa

diante de nosso Deus.

11 Eles o derrotaram pelo sangue do Cordeiro

e pelo testemunho deles.

Não amaram a própria vida

nem mesmo diante da morte.

12 Portanto, alegrem-se, ó céus,

e vocês que habitam nos céus!

Sobre a terra e o mar, porém, virá terror,

pois o diabo desceu até vocês com grande fúria,

sabendo que lhe resta pouco tempo".

13 Quando o dragão percebeu que havia sido lançado na terra, perseguiu a mulher que tinha dado à luz o menino. 14 Ela, porém, recebeu duas asas como as de uma grande águia, para que voasse ao lugar preparado para ela no deserto. Ali, será sustentada e protegida da serpente durante um tempo, tempos e metade de um tempo.

15 Então a serpente, com uma torrente de água que fez sair de sua boca, tentou afogar a mulher. 16 Mas a terra ajudou a mulher, abrindo a boca e engolindo o rio que havia jorrado da boca do dragão. 17 O dragão se enfureceu com a mulher e passou a lutar contra o restante de seus filhos, todos os que obedecem aos mandamentos de Deus e se mantêm fiéis no testemunho de Jesus.

18 Então o dragão se colocou em pé na praia, junto ao mar.

1 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman having been clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.2 And being pregnant, she was crying out, being in labor and being in great pain to give birth.3 And another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great, fiery dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns on his heads.4 And his tail dragged a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that whenever she might give birth, he might devour her Child.5 And she gave birth to a Son, a male who would shepherd all the nations with an iron rod. And her Child was caught up to God and to His throne.6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place having been prepared by God, so that they may nourish her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.7 And there came to be war in heaven: Michael and his angels, waging war with the dragon; and the dragon made war, and his angels,8 and he did not prevail, nor was a place found for him [any] longer in heaven.9 And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.10 Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers, the [one] who accused them before our God day and night, has been thrown [out of heaven].11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the earth and to the sea! Because the devil was thrown down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."13 Now when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male [Child].14 And the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly into the desert to her place, so that she might be nourished there [for] a time and times and half a time, from [the] face of the serpent.15 And the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a river after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried off by the river.16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and drank up the river which the dragon had cast out of his mouth.17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went off to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus.