¹ Ma avverrà, negli ultimi tempi, che il monte della casa dell’Eterno si ergerà sopra la sommità de’ monti, e s’innalzerà al disopra delle colline, e i popoli affluiranno ad esso.

² Verranno delle nazioni in gran numero e diranno: "Venite, saliamo al monte dell’Eterno e alla casa dell’Iddio di Giacobbe; egli c’insegnerà le sue vie, e noi cammineremo nei suoi sentieri!" Poiché da Sion uscirà la legge, e da Gerusalemme la parola dell’Eterno.

³ Egli sarà giudice fra molti popoli, e sederà come arbitro fra nazioni potenti e lontane. Delle loro spade fabbricheranno vomeri, delle loro lance, roncole; una nazione non leverà più la spada contro l’altra, e non impareranno più la guerra.

⁴ Sederanno ciascuno sotto la sua vigna e sotto il suo fico senza che alcuno li spaventi; poiché la bocca dell’Eterno degli eserciti ha parlato.

⁵ Mentre tutti i popoli camminano ciascuno nel nome del suo dio, noi cammineremo nel nome dell’Eterno, del nostro dio, in perpetuo.

⁶ In quel giorno, dice l’Eterno, io raccoglierò le pecore zoppe, radunerò quelle ch’erano state scacciate, e quelle ch’io avevo trattato duramente.

⁷ Di quelle che zoppicano farò un resto, che sussisterà; di quelle scacciate lontano una nazione potente; e l’Eterno regnerà su loro sul monte Sion, da allora in perpetuo.

⁸ E tu, torre del gregge, colle della figliuola di Sion, a te verrà, a te verrà l’antico dominio, il regno che spetta alla figliuola di Gerusalemme.

⁹ Ora, perché gridi tu così forte? Non v’è egli alcun re dentro di te? Il tuo consigliere è egli perito che l’angoscia ti colga come di donna che partorisce?

¹⁰ Soffri e gemi, o figliuola di Sion, come donna che partorisce! Poiché ora uscirai dalla città, dimorerai per i campi, e andrai fino a Babilonia. Là tu sarai liberata, là l’Eterno ti riscatterà dalla mano dei tuoi nemici.

¹¹ Ora molte nazioni si son radunate contro di te, le quali dicono: "Sia profanata! e i nostri si pascan della vista di Sion!"

¹² Ma esse non conoscono i pensieri dell’Eterno, non intendono i suoi disegni: poich’egli le raduna come mannelle sull’aia.

¹³ Figliuola di Sion, lèvati, trebbia! perché io farò che sia di ferro il tuo corno, che le tue unghie sian di rame; e tu triterai molti popoli; e consacrerò come interdetto i loro guadagni all’Eterno, e le loro ricchezze al Signore di tutta la terra.

¹ I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!"

² The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

³ The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

⁴ The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

⁵ I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.

⁶ For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."

⁷ I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments."

⁸ The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

⁹ People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.

¹⁰ The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

¹¹ and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn't repent of their works.

¹² The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.

¹³ I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs;

¹⁴ for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

¹⁵ "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."

¹⁶ He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo.

¹⁷ The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"

¹⁸ There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty.

¹⁹ The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

²⁰ Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

²¹ Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.