And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding down the earth’s four winds so that no wind would blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
And I saw another angel having ascended from the sun’s rising, having the seal of the Living God and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to injure the earth and the sea, saying,
“Don’t harm the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees until we seal the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
And I heard the number of the ones sealed: a hundred and forty four thousand sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel:
out of the tribe Judah twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Reuben twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Gad twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Aser twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Nephthalim twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Manasses twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Simeon twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Levi twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Issachar twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Zabulon twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Joseph twelve thousand sealed,
out of the tribe Benjamin twelve thousand sealed.
After these things I saw, and look! A great crowd which no one could count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and palms in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice saying,
“Salvation to our God who is sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four animals, and fell in front of the throne on their face and worshipped God, saying,
“Truly, the blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honour and the power and the strength to our God for ever and ever. Truly!”
And one of the elders answered saying to me,
“These who are dressed in white robes: who are they and where did they come from?”
And I said to him,
“Sir, you know!”
And he said to me,
“These are the ones coming out of the great affliction and they’ve washed their robes and whitened their robes in the blood of the Lamb. Because of this they are in front of the throne of God, and worship him day and night in his temple, and the one sitting on the throne will stretch out his tent over them. They won’t be hungry any more nor will they be thirsty, neither will the sun nor any heat fall on them at all; because the Lamb, the one in the middle of the throne, will shepherd them and will lead them to living springs of waters, and God will brush away every tear from their eyes.”
