Revelation 15

The song of Moses and of the Lamb

¹And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels who had the seven last plagues, because in them the fury of God was completed.^•

²And I saw as it were a sea of glass mixed with fire, and the conquerors of the beast, and of its image, and of the number of its name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.^•³They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:^•

Great and marvelous are Your works,^•O Lord God, the Almighty;^•just and true are Your ways,^•O King of the nations.^•⁴Who will not fear You, O Lord,^•and glorify Your name?^•For You alone are holy;^•for all the nations will come^•and worship before You,^•for Your righteous acts have been made manifest.^•

The seven angels with the seven plagues

⁵And after these things I saw, and the sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony was opened in heaven,^•⁶and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the sanctuary, clothed in pure and bright linen, and girded at the chest with golden sashes.^•⁷Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the fury of God, who lives forever and ever.^•⁸The sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.^•

Notes

15:1 “Sign”: Gr. σημεῖον (cf. 12:1, 3). “The seven last plagues”: Gr. πληγὰς ἑπτὰ τὰς ἐσχάτας (cf. 16:1; 21:9; Lev 26:21). “Was completed”: Gr. ἐτελέσθη (cf. 10:7). “Fury”: Gr. θυμός (cf. 14:10). ↩
15:2 “As it were a sea of glass”: cf. 4:6. “The conquerors of the beast”: Gr. τοὺς νικῶντας ἐκ τοῦ θηρίου, lit. “those who conquer from the beast”. “Number of its name”: cf. 13:17–18; the Textus Receptus adds “and of its mark”. “Standing on”: Gr. ἐπί with the accusative, also “beside”. “Harps of God”: cf. 5:8; 14:2. ↩
15:3 “The song of Moses”: cf. Ex 15:1–18; Deut 31:30–32:43. “Servant of God”: cf. Num 12:7; Josh 1:2. “Great and marvelous are Your works”: cf. Ps 111:2 [LXX 110:2]; 139:14 [LXX 138:14]. “Just and true are Your ways”: cf. Deut 32:4; Ps 145:17 [LXX 144:17]. “King of the nations”: Gr. ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν ἐθνῶν, following Codex Alexandrinus and the Byzantine text (cf. 15:4; Jer 10:7); the SBLGNT follows Papyrus 47, the original text of Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Ephraemi, which read “King of the ages” (cf. 1 Tim 1:17). Variant: the Textus Receptus reads “King of the saints”. ↩
15:4 “Who will not fear You”: Gr. οὐ μή, an emphatic negation, which also governs “glorify”; cf. Jer 10:7 (not in the LXX). “You” is not in the SBLGNT; the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus read σε. “Holy”: Gr. ὅσιος (cf. 16:5); the Byzantine text reads ἅγιος. “All the nations will come and worship”: cf. Ps 86:9 [LXX 85:9]; Isa 2:2–3; 66:23. “Righteous acts”: Gr. δικαιώματα (cf. 19:8). “Have been made manifest”: Gr. ἐφανερώθησαν. ↩
15:5 “The sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony”: Gr. ὁ ναὸς τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου (cf. 11:19; Ex 38:21 [LXX 37:19]; Num 1:50; Acts 7:44). Variant: the Textus Receptus adds “and behold”. ↩
15:6 “Pure and bright linen”: Gr. λίνον καθαρὸν λαμπρόν (cf. 19:8, 14); codices Alexandrinus and Ephraemi read λίθον, “stone” (cf. Ezek 28:13). “Girded at the chest with golden sashes”: cf. 1:13; Dan 10:5. ↩
15:7 “Bowls”: Gr. φιάλας (cf. 5:8; 16:1). “Who lives forever and ever”: cf. 4:9–10; 10:6. ↩
15:8 “From the glory”: Gr. ἐκ τῆς δόξης. “The sanctuary was filled with smoke”: cf. Ex 40:34–35 [LXX 40:28–29]; 1 Kgs 8:10–11; 2 Chr 5:13–14; Isa 6:4. “Were completed”: Gr. τελεσθῶσιν (cf. 15:1). ↩