< Revelation 14 >
1 Then, in my vision, I saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion. With him were a hundred and forty-four thousand men, with his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.
我又观看,见羊羔站在锡安山上,与他一起的还有十四万四千人,额上都写着他的名和他父的名。
2 And I heard a sound from Heaven, ‘like the sound of many waters,’ and like the sound of a loud peal of thunder; the sound that I heard was like the music of harpers playing on their harps.
我听见天上传来一个声音,听起来就像流淌的水和响雷,又像很多竖琴弹奏的琴声。
3 They are singing what seems to be a new song, before the throne, and before the four Creatures and the Councillors; and no one was able to learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from earth.
他们在宝座前、在四个活物和众长老面前,唱了一首新歌。除了十四万四千人,即那些从地上被赎回的人,没有人能够学会这首歌。没有人能学这歌。
4 These are the men who never defiled themselves in their intercourse with women; they are as pure as virgins. These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed as the first-fruits of mankind for God and for the Lamb.
这些人没有与妇女一起让自己玷污,他们在精神上是纯洁的。无论羊羔去哪里,他们都会跟随。这些人是从世人中兑换而来,作为初熟之果交给上帝和羊羔。
5 ‘No lie was ever heard upon their lips.’ They are beyond reach of blame.
他们不说谎言;他们没有瑕疵。
6 Then I saw another angel, flying in mid-heaven. He had the Good News, decreed from eternity, to announce to those who dwell on the earth — to men of every nation, and tribe, and language, and people; (aiōnios )
我又看见另一位天使在天空飞翔,有永恒的福音要传给住在地上的人,提供给不同国家、部落、语言和民族的人。 (aiōnios )
7 and he cried in a loud voice — ‘Reverence God, and give him praise (for the hour of his Judgment has come) and worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all springs of water.’
他大声说:“应当敬畏上帝,把荣耀归给他!因为他审判的时候到了。应当敬拜创造天、地、海和水泉源的那一位!”
8 Then a second angel followed, crying — ‘She has fallen! She has fallen — Babylon the Great, who has made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her licentiousness!’
又有第二位天使接着喊道:“伟大的巴比伦崩塌成废墟!她使所有的国家都喝了她的性罪之酒,使上帝愤怒地反对他们。。”
9 Then a third angel followed them, crying in a loud voice — ‘Whoever worships the Beast and its image, and receives its brand on his forehead or on his hand,
又有第三位天使,跟随前两个天使大声喊:“如果有人膜拜野兽和兽像,又在自己的额上或手上接受记号,
10 that man shall drink the maddening wine of God that has been poured unmixed into the cup of his Wrath, and he shall be tortured with fire and sulphur before the eyes of the holy angels and before the eyes of the Lamb.
他们将喝下上帝愤怒反对的酒,这酒未进行过滤就斟在上帝震怒的杯中,他必定在众天使和羊羔面前,在火与硫磺之中受痛 苦。
11 The smoke from their torture rises for ever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night — those who worship the Beast and its image, and all who are branded with its name.’ (aiōn )
他们痛苦的烟向上冒,直到永远。那些膜拜野兽和兽像的,以及接受其名字记号的人,日夜得不到安宁。” (aiōn )
12 (Here there is need for endurance on the part of Christ’s People — those who lay to heart the commands of God and the Faith of Jesus.)
这意味着,信徒必须耐心地忍耐,遵守上帝的诫命,信靠耶稣。
13 Then I heard a voice from Heaven saying ‘Write — “Blessed are the dead who from this hour die in union with the Lord.” “Yes,” answers the Spirit, “that they may rest from their toil. Their good deeds go with them.”’
我听见天上有声音说:“你要写下来!从今以后,那些在主里死去的人有福了!”灵说:“是的,他们脱离自己的劳苦,他们所成就的也为他们佐证”
14 Then, in my vision, I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud there was sitting one ‘like a man.’ On his head he had a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
我继续看。看到一朵白云,云上那位好似人子,头上戴着金冠,手里拿着锋利的镰刀。
15 Then another angel came out from the Temple, crying in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud — ‘Take your sickle and reap, for the time to reap has come; the Harvest of Earth is ready.’
另一位天使从圣殿出来,对坐在云上的那位大声呼喊:“伸出你的镰刀来收割吧!因为收割时间已到,地上的庄稼已熟透。”
16 He who was sitting on the cloud brought his sickle down upon the earth, and the Harvest of Earth was reaped.
那坐在云上的向地上挥动镰刀,地上的庄稼就被收割了。
17 Then another angel came out of the Temple in Heaven; he, also, had a sharp sickle.
又有另一位天使从天上的圣殿出来,他也拿着一把锋利的镰刀。
18 Then another angel came out of the altar; he had power over fire, and he called in a loud voice to the angel that had the sharp sickle — ‘Take your sharp sickle, and gather the bunches from the Vine of Earth, for its grapes are ripe.’
他身后是一位天使,从祭坛处而来,拥有负责火的权力;他向那拿着锋利镰刀的天使大声说:“伸出你锋利镰刀,收获地上葡萄树累累硕果!因为葡萄已经熟透。”
19 The angel brought his sickle down on the earth and gathered the fruit of the Vine of Earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the Wrath of God.
那天使便向地上挥动镰刀,收取地上的葡萄,把葡萄扔在上帝审判的压榨大酒池中。
20 The ‘grapes were trodden in the press’ outside the city; and blood came out of the press, rising as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of two hundred miles.
那压榨酒池在城外被踹踏,就有血从压榨池中流出来,涨到马嚼环那么高,流到大约三百 公里那么远。