11:1 Then there was given to me a ①measuring rod like a staff; ②and someone said, “Get up and measure the ③temple of God and the altar, and those who worship in it.
▷ ①Lit reed ②Lit saying ③Or sanctuary
11:2 ①Leave out the courtyard which is outside the ②temple and do not measure it, because it has been given to the nations; and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.
▷ ①Or sanctuary ②Lit Throw out
11:3 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
11:4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
11:5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire flows out of their mouth and devours their enemies; and so if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.
11:6 These have the power to shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
11:7 When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them and kill them.
11:8 And their dead bodies will lie on the street of the great city which ①spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
▷ ①I.e., from the viewpoint of the Holy Spirit
11:9 Those from the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead ①bodies for three and a half days, and ②will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
▷ ①Lit body ②Lit do not permit
11:10 And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate; and they will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth.
11:11 And after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them.
11:12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up into heaven in the cloud, and their enemies watched them.
11:13 And ①at that time there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell; ②seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
▷ ①Or in that hour ②Lit names of people, seven thousand
11:14 The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is coming quickly.
11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His ①Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.”
▷ ①I.e., Messiah
11:16 And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
11:17 saying, “We give You thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.
11:18 And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to ①reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the ②saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
▷ ①Lit give the reward to ②Lit holy ones; i.e., God’s people
11:19 And the ①temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His ②temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder, and an earthquake, and a great ③hailstorm.
▷ ①Or sanctuary ②Or sanctuary ③Lit hail