Revelation 12
1 A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
時，天上出現了一個大異兆：有一個女人，身披太陽，腳踏月亮，頭戴十二顆星的榮冠；
2 She was with child. She screamed out in pain, laboring to give birth.
她胎中懷了孕，在產痛和苦勞中，呼疼呻吟。
3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Look, a great fiery red serpent, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
隨著天上又出現了另一個異兆：有一條火紅的大龍，有七個頭，十隻角，頭上戴著七個王冠。
4 His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The serpent stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
牠的尾巴將天上的星辰勾下了三分之一，投在地上。那條龍便站在那要生產的女人面前，待她生產後，要吞下她的孩子。
5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with an iron scepter. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.
那女人生了一個男孩子，他就是那要以鐵杖牧放萬民的；那女人的孩子被提到天主和他的寶座前。
6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
女人就逃到曠野去了，在那裏有天主已給她準備好的地方，叫她在那裏受供養一千二百六十天。
7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the serpent, and the serpent and his angels fought back.
以後，天主就發生了戰爭：彌額爾和他的天使一同與那龍交戰，那龍也和牠的使者一起應戰，
8 But he was not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.
但牠們敵不住，在天上遂再也沒有牠們的地方了。
9 And the great serpent was thrown down, the ancient serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
於是那大龍被摔了下來，牠就是那遠古的蛇，號稱魔鬼或撒殫的。那欺騙了全世界的，被摔倒地上，牠的使者也同牠一起被摔了下來。
10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
那時我聽見天上有大聲音說：「如今我們的天主獲得了勝利、權能和國度，也顯示了他基督的權柄，因為那日夜在我們的天主前，控告我們弟兄的控告者，已被摔下去了。
11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. They did not love their life, even to death.
他們賴羔羊的血和他們作證的話，得勝了那條龍，因為他們情願犧牲自己的性命死了。
12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the land and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
為此，高天和住在那裏的，你們歡樂罷！禍哉，大地和海洋！因為魔鬼懷著大怒下到你們那裏去了，因為他知道自己只有很短的時間了。」
13 When the serpent saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
那條龍一看見自己被摔到地上，就去追趕那生了男嬰的女人。
14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
可是有大鷹的兩個翅膀給了那女人，為叫她飛入曠野，到自己的地方去，在那裏受供養一段時期、兩段時期和半段時期，遠離那蛇的面。
15 The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
那蛇遂在女人後面，從自己的口中吐出一道像河的水，為使那女人被河水沖去；
16 The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the serpent spewed out of his mouth.
可是大地卻援助了那女人，大地裂開一個口，把那條龍從口中所吐出的河水吸了去。
17 The serpent grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God's commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus.
那條龍便對那女人大發忿怒，遂去與她其餘的後裔，即那些遵行天主的誡命，且為耶穌作證的人交戰；
