¹ Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.

² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

³ We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

⁴ Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

⁵ Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

⁶ We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

⁷ Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

⁸ Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

⁹ We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

¹⁰ Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

¹¹ They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

¹² Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

¹³ The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

¹⁴ The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

¹⁵ The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁶ The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

¹⁷ For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

¹⁸ Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

¹⁹ Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰ Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?

²¹ Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

²² Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

¹ I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

² I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

³ They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

⁴ These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

⁵ In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

⁶ I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

⁷ He said with a loud voice, "Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!"

⁸ Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."

⁹ Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand,

¹⁰ he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

¹¹ The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

¹² Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus."

¹³ I heard the voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them."

¹⁴ I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

¹⁵ Another angel came out from the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Send forth your sickle, and reap; for the hour to reap has come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe!"

¹⁶ He who sat on the cloud thrust his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped.

¹⁷ Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.

¹⁸ Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"

¹⁹ The angel thrust his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

²⁰ The winepress was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out from the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.