Apocalipse 12

1 A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. 4 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne. 6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.

7 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. 8 They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven. 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. 11 They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death. 12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."

13 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. 14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. 16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth. 17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring,*12:17 or, seed who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

Te Wahine me te Tarakona

1 Nā, ka kitea he tohu nui i te rangi; he wahine, ko te rā tōna kākahu, ko te marama kei raro i ōna waewae, i runga anō i tōna mātenga ko ngā whetū kotahi tekau mā rua hei karauna. 2 Kua hapū hoki ia, nā, karanga ana, oke ana, he mamae whānautanga.

3 Ā, ka kitea tētahi atu tohu i te rangi, nā, he tarakona nui, he mea whero, e whitu ōna māhunga, tekau ōna haona, e whitu anō ngā karauna i runga i ōna māhunga. 4 Ā, e kūmea ana e tōna hiku te wāhi tuatoru o ngā whetū o te rangi, makā ana e ia ki te whenua. Ā, ka tū te tarakona i te aroaro o te wahine i mea nei ki te whānau, hei kai i tāna tamaiti ina whānau. 5 Nā, ka whānau te tamaiti a te wahine rā, he tāne, ko ia hei whakahaere tikanga mō ngā iwi katoa ki te tokotoko rino. Nā, kua kāhakina atu tāna tamaiti ki te Atua, ki tōna torōna hoki. 6 Ā, ka oma te wahine rā ki te koraha, kua rite noa ake hoki i te Atua he kāinga mōna ki reira, ki reira whāngainga ai ia, kia taka rā anō ngā rā kotahi mano e rua rau e ono tekau.

7 Nā, he whawhai tērā kei te rangi. Ko Mikaera rātou ko āna anahera e whawhai ana ki te tarakona; whawhai ana hoki te tarakona rātou ko āna anahera. 8 Ā, kīhai rātou i toa; kīhai anō hoki tō rātou wāhi i kitea i te rangi i muri iho. 9 Nā, ka makā te tarakona nui, te nākahi onamata, e huaina nei ko te Rēwera, ko Hātana hoki, e whakapōhēhē nei i te ao katoa. Ka makā ia ki te whenua, ā, i maka tahitia āna anahera me ia.

10 Ā, ka rongo ahau i te reo nui i te rangi e kī ana:

"Tēnei kua tae mai te whakaoranga, te kaha, me te rangatiratanga o tō tātou Atua,

me te mana hoki o tāna Karaiti;

nō te mea kua whakatakā te kaiwhakapae ki ō tātou tēina,

e whakapae nei ki a rātou i te ao, i te pō,

i te aroaro o tō tātou Atua.

11 Hinga ana ia i a rātou,

he meatanga nā ngā toto o te Reme,

nā te kupu hoki o tā rātou whakaatu;

kīhai rātou i aroha ki te ora mō rātou, ā mate noa.

12 Kia hari koutou ki tēnei, e ngā rangi,

e te hunga hoki e noho ana i reira.

Auē te mate mō te whenua, mō te moana hoki!

Kua heke atu hoki ki a koutou te rēwera,

nui atu hoki tōna riri,

nō te mea kua mātau ia he poto tōna tāima."

13 Ā, nō ka kite te tarakona kua makā ia ki te whenua, ka whakatoia e ia te wahine nāna te tamaiti tāne i whānau nei. 14 Nā, e rua ngā pākau o te ēkara nui kua hoatu ki te wahine, kia rere ai ia ki te koraha, ki tōna kāinga, ki reira whāngainga ai ā taka noa he tāima, ētahi tāima, me te hāwhe tāima, kei kitea mai e te nākahi. 15 Nā, ka whakaruakina mai e te nākahi i tōna māngai i muri i te wahine rā he wai, ānō he awa, kia kāhakina atu ai ia e te awa. 16 Ā, ka āwhinatia mai te wahine e te whenua, ka hāmama te māngai o te whenua, inumia ake te awa i whakaruakina nei e te tarakona i roto i tōna māngai. 17 Ā, riri ana te tarakona ki te wahine; haere ana ia ki te whawhai ki ērā atu o tāna whānau, ki te hunga e pupuri ana i ngā ture a te Atua, kei a rātou nei te whakaatu o Īhu Karaiti.