启示录 21
新天新地
1 我又看见一个新天新地；因为先前的天地已经过去了，海也不再有了。 2 我又看见圣城新耶路撒冷由 神那里从天而降，预备好了，就如新妇妆饰整齐，等候丈夫。 3 我听见有大声音从宝座出来说：「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，作他们的 神。 4 神要擦去他们一切的眼泪；不再有死亡，也不再有悲哀、哭号、疼痛，因为以前的事都过去了。」
5 坐宝座的说：「看哪，我将一切都更新了！」又说：「你要写上；因这些话是可信的，是真实的。」 6 他又对我说：「都成了！我是阿拉法，我是俄梅戛；我是初，我是终。我要将生命泉的水白白赐给那口渴的人喝。 7 得胜的，必承受这些为业：我要作他的 神，他要作我的儿子。 8 惟有胆怯的、不信的、可憎的、杀人的、淫乱的、行邪术的、拜偶像的，和一切说谎话的，他们的分就在烧着硫磺的火湖里；这是第二次的死。」
新耶路撒冷
9 拿着七个金碗、盛满末后七灾的七位天使中，有一位来对我说：「你到这里来，我要将新妇，就是羔羊的妻，指给你看。」 10 我被圣灵感动，天使就带我到一座高大的山，将那由 神那里、从天而降的圣城耶路撒冷指示我。 11 城中有 神的荣耀；城的光辉如同极贵的宝石，好像碧玉，明如水晶。 12 有高大的墙，有十二个门，门上有十二位天使，门上又写着以色列十二个支派的名字。 13 东边有三门，北边有三门，南边有三门，西边有三门。 14 城墙有十二根基，根基上有羔羊十二使徒的名字。
15 对我说话的，拿着金苇子当尺，要量那城和城门城墙。 16 城是四方的，长宽一样。天使用苇子量那城，共有四千里，长、宽、高都是一样； 17 又量了城墙，按着人的尺寸，就是天使的尺寸，共有一百四十四肘。 18 墙是碧玉造的；城是精金的，如同明净的玻璃。 19 城墙的根基是用各样宝石修饰的：第一根基是碧玉；第二是蓝宝石；第三是绿玛瑙；第四是绿宝石； 20 第五是红玛瑙；第六是红宝石；第七是黄璧玺；第八是水苍玉；第九是红璧玺；第十是翡翠；第十一是紫玛瑙；第十二是紫晶。 21 十二个门是十二颗珍珠，每门是一颗珍珠。城内的街道是精金，好像明透的玻璃。
22 我未见城内有殿，因主 神—全能者和羔羊为城的殿。 23 那城内又不用日月光照；因有 神的荣耀光照，又有羔羊为城的灯。 24 列国要在城的光里行走；地上的君王必将自己的荣耀归与那城。 25 城门白昼总不关闭，在那里原没有黑夜。 26 人必将列国的荣耀、尊贵归与那城。 27 凡不洁净的，并那行可憎与虚谎之事的，总不得进那城；只有名字写在羔羊生命册上的才得进去。
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.