Откровение ап. Иоанна Богослова 12
1 И знамение велие явися на небеси: жена облечена в солнце, и луна под ногама ея, и на главе ея венец от звезд двоюнадесяте:
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.
2 и во чреве имущи, вопиет болящи и страждущи родити.
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
3 И явися ино знамение на небеси: и се, змий велик чермен, имея глав седмь и рогов десять, и на главах его седмь венец:
Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.
4 и хобот его отторже третию часть звезд небесных и положи я в землю. И змий стояше пред женою хотящею родити, да, егда родит, снесть чадо ея.
His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.
5 И роди сына мужеска, иже имать упасти вся языки жезлом железным: и восхищено бысть чадо ея к Богу и престолу Его.
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God and to his throne.
6 А жена бежа в пустыню, идеже име место уготовано от Бога, да тамо питается дний тысящу двесте шестьдесят.
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.
7 И бысть брань на небеси: Михаил и Ангели его брань сотвориша со змием, и змий брася и аггели его,
There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
8 и не возмогоша, и места не обретеся им ктому на небеси.
They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven.
9 И вложен бысть змий великий, змий древний, нарицаемый диавол и сатана, льстяй вселенную всю, и вложен бысть на землю, и аггели его с ним низвержени быша.
The great dragon was thrown down, the old 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.
10 И слышах глас велий на небеси, глаголющь: ныне бысть спасение и сила и царство Бога нашего и область Христа Его, яко низложен бысть клеветник братии нашея, оклевещая их пред Богом нашим день и нощь.
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
11 И тии победиша его кровию Агнчею и словом свидетелства своего, и не возлюбиша душ своих даже до смерти.
They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
12 Сего ради веселитеся, небеса и живущии на них. Горе живущым на земли и мори, яко сниде диавол к вам, имея ярость великую, ведый, яко время мало имать.
Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”
13 И егда виде змий, яко низложен бысть на землю, гоняше жену, яже роди мужеска.
When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child.
14 И дана быша жене два крила орла великаго, да парит в пустыню в место свое, идеже препитана бяше ту время и времен и пол времене, от лица змиина.
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, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 И испусти змий за женою из уст своих воду яко реку, да ю в реце потопит.
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.
16 И поможе земля жене, и отверзе земля уста своя, и пожре реку, юже изведе змий от уст своих.
The earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon spewed out of his mouth.
17 И разгневася змий на жену и иде сотворити брань со оставшим семенем ея, иже соблюдают заповеди Божия и имеют свидетелство Иисус Христово.
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
