启示录 21

新天新地

1 我又看见一个新天新地，因为先前的天地都过去了，海也再没有了。2 我又看见圣城，新耶路撒冷，从天上由 神那里降下来，预备好了，好像打扮整齐等候丈夫的新娘。3 我听见有大声音从宝座那里发出来，说：“看哪！ 神的帐幕在人间，他要与人同住，他们要作他的子民。 神要亲自与他们同在，要作他们的 神。4 他要抹去他们的一切眼泪，不再有死亡，也不再有悲哀、哭号、痛苦，因为先前的事都过去了。”5 坐在宝座上的那一位说：“看哪，我把一切都更新了！”又说：“你要写下来，因为这些话是可信的、真实的。”6 他又对我说：“成了！我是阿拉法，是俄梅格；我是创始的，也是成终的。我要把生命的泉水，白白赐给口渴的人喝。7 得胜的，必要承受这些福分。我要作他的 神，他要作我的儿子。8 只是那些胆怯的、不信的、可憎的、杀人的、淫乱的、行邪术的、拜偶像的和所有说谎的人，他们的分是在烧着硫磺的火湖里。这就是第二次的死。”
新耶路撒冷9 拿着七个盛满着末后七灾的碗的七位天使中，有一位走来对我说：“你来！我要把新娘，就是羊羔的妻子，指示你。”10 我在灵里被那天使带到一座高大的山上，他把从天上由 神那里降下来的圣城耶路撒冷指示我。11 这城有 神的荣耀，城的光辉好像极贵的宝石，又像晶莹的碧玉。12 有高大的城墙，有十二个门，门口有十二位天使，门上写着以色列十二支派的名字。13 东边有三个门，南边有三个门，西边有三个门，北边有三个门。14 城墙有十二座根基，根基上有羊羔的十二使徒的名字。15 那对我说话的天使拿着一根金的芦苇，要量那城、城门和城墙。16 城是四方的，长宽都一样。天使用芦苇量那城，共有二千四百公里，城的长、宽、高都一样；17 又量了城墙，约有六十公尺。天使用的标准，就是人量度的标准。18 城墙是用碧玉做的，城是用明净像玻璃的纯金做的。19 城墙的根基是用各样宝石装饰的：第一座根基是碧玉，第二座是蓝宝石，第三座是玛瑙，第四座是绿宝石，20 第五座是红玛瑙，第六座是红宝石，第七座是黄璧玺，第八座是水苍玉，第九座是红璧玺，第十座是翡翠，第十一座是紫玛瑙，第十二座是紫晶。21 十二个门是十二颗珍珠，每一个门是用一颗珍珠做的。城里的街道是纯金的，好像透明的玻璃。22 我没有看见城里有圣所，因为主全能的 神和羊羔就是城的圣所。23 这城不需要日月照明，因为有 神的荣耀照明，而羊羔就是城的灯。24 列国要藉着城的光行走，地上的众王要把他们的荣华带到这城来。25 城门白天决不关闭。在那里并没有黑夜。26 列国的荣华尊贵都被带到这城。27 所有不洁净的、行可憎的和说谎的，决不可以进入这城。只有名字记在羊羔生命册上的才可以进去。

Revelation 21

A New Heaven and a New Earth

1 Thent I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist,t and the sea existed no more.2 And I saw the holy city – the new Jerusalem – descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Look! The residencet of God is among human beings.t Het will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them.s

4 Het will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”t
5 And the one seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new!” Thent he said to me, “Write it down,t because these words are reliablet and true.”6 He also said to me, “It is done!t I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give watert free of charget from the spring of the water of life.7 The one who conquerst will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

8 But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells,t idol worshipers,t and all those who lie, their placet will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur.t Thatt is the second death.”

The New Jerusalem Descends

9 Thent one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and spoke to me,t saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb!”10 Sot he took me away in the Spiritt to a huge, majestic mountaint and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.11 The city possessest the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.t12 It hast a massive, high wallt with twelve gates,t with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israelt are written on the gates.t13 There aret three gates on the east side, three gates on the north side, three gates on the south side and three gates on the west side.t

14 Thet wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 The angelt who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.16 Nowt the city is laid out as a square,t its length and width the same. Het measured the city with the measuring rodt at fourteen hundred milest (its length and width and height are equal).17 He also measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubitst according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.t18 The city’st wall is madet of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.t19 The foundations of the city’s wall are decoratedt with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate,s the fourth emerald,20 the fifth onyx,s the sixth carnelian,s the seventh chrysolite,s the eighth beryl,s the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase,s the eleventh jacinth,s and the twelfth amethyst.

21 And the twelve gates are twelve pearls – each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! Thet main streett of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.
22 Nowt I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God – the All-Powerfult – and the Lamb are its temple.23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.24 The nationst will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeurt into it.25 Its gates will never be closed during the dayt (andt there will be no night there).t26 They will bring the grandeur and the wealtht of the nationst into it,

27 butt nothing ritually uncleant will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestablet or practices falsehood,t but only those whose namest are written in the Lamb’s book of life.