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. 2 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
3 Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. 4 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 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 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 There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. 8 They didn’t prevail. No place was found for them any more in heaven. 9 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 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 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 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 When the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male child. 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, times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 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. 16 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 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.
1 那时， 天上出现了一个奇伟的景象： 有一个妇人， 身披太阳， 脚踏月亮， 头戴十二颗星的冠冕。
2 她怀了孕， 在生产的痛苦中疼痛呼叫。
3 天上又出现了另一个景象。看哪！ 有一条大红龙， 有七头十角， 七头上戴着七个皇冠。
4 它的尾巴拖着天上三分之一的星辰， 把它们摔在地上。龙站在那快要生产的妇人面前， 等她生产了， 就要吞吃她的孩子。
5 她生了一个男孩子， 就是将来要用铁杖治理列国的。她的孩子被提取到 神和他宝座那里去。
6 妇人就逃到旷野去了， 那里有 神为她预备的地方。她在那里得供养一千二百六十天。
7 天上发生了战争： 米迦勒和他的天使与龙作战。龙和它的天使也起来应战，
8 龙却抵挡不住， 天上再也没有它们的地方了。
9 于是那大龙被摔了下来。它就是那古蛇， 名叫魔鬼， 又叫撒但， 是迷惑普天下的人的。它被摔在地上， 它的天使也跟它一同被摔了下来。
10 我又听见天上有大声音说： "我们 神的救恩、能力、国度和他所立的基督的权柄， 现在都已经来到了！ 因为那昼夜在我们 神面前控告我们弟兄的控告者， 已经被摔下来了！
11 弟兄胜过它， 是因着羊羔的血， 也因着自己所见证的道， 他们虽然至死， 也不爱惜自己的性命。
12 所以， 众天和住在其中的， 你们都欢乐吧！ 可是地和海有祸了！ 因为魔鬼知道自己的时日无多， 就大大发怒下到你们那里去了。"
13 龙见自己被摔在地上， 就迫害那生了男孩子的妇人。
14 于是有大鹰的两个翅膀赐给了那妇人， 使她可以飞到旷野， 到自己的地方， 在那里得供养一年两年半年， 离开那蛇的面。
15 蛇在妇人后面， 从口中吐出水来， 好像江河一样， 要把妇人冲去。
16 地却帮助了那妇人， 张开口， 把从龙口中吐出来的河水吞了。
17 龙就向妇人发怒， 去和她其余的子孙作战， 就是和那遵守 神命令坚持耶稣见证的人作战。 [ (Revelation 12:18) 那时， 龙站在海边的沙上。 ]