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Those who live on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

Therefore rejoice, you heavens,and you who dwell in them!Woe to the earth and the sea,because the devil has come down to youwith great fury,because he knows his time is short.

They worshiped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against it?”

It deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it is permitted to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

This calls for wisdom: Let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, because it is the number of a person. Its number is 666.

He spoke with a loud voice: “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

Yet another angel, who had authority over fire, came from the altar, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vineyard of the earth, because its grapes have ripened.”

Because they poured outthe blood of the saints and the prophets,you have given them blood to drink;they deserve it!

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues because of their pain

and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they did not repent of their works.

Enormous hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds, fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.

These will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. Those with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”

For this reason her plagues will come in just one day—death and grief and famine.She will be burned up with fire,because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.

The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any longer—

Rejoice over her, heaven,and you saints, apostles, and prophets,because God has pronounced on her the judgment she passed on you!

the light of a lampwill never shine in you again;and the voice of a groom and bridewill never be heard in you again.All this will happenbecause your merchantswere the nobility of the earth,because all the nations were deceivedby your sorcery.

because his judgments are true and righteous,because he has judged the notorious prostitutewho corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality;and he has avenged the blood of his servantsthat was on her hands.

Let us be glad, rejoice, and give him glory,because the marriage of the Lamb has come,and his bride has prepared herself.

Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “Don’t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers and sisters who hold firmly to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Then I saw thrones, and people seated on them who were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and who had not accepted the mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.