Revelation 19

Hallelujah!

¹After these things I heard as it were a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying:^•

Hallelujah!^•Salvation, and glory, and power belong to our God,^•²because true and just are His judgments;^•because He has judged the great prostitute,^•who corrupted the earth with her prostitution,^•and He has avenged the blood of His servants at her hand.^•

³And they said a second time:^•

Hallelujah!^•And her smoke goes up forever and ever.^•

⁴And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who is seated on the throne, saying:^•

Amen! Hallelujah!^•

⁵And a voice came out from the throne, saying:^•

Praise our God, all His servants,^•and you who fear Him, the small and the great.^•

⁶And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as it were the voice of many waters, and as it were the voice of mighty thunders, saying:^•

Hallelujah!^•For the Lord God, the Almighty, has begun to reign.^•⁷Let us rejoice and exult,^•and we will give Him the glory,^•because the wedding of the Lamb has come,^•and His wife has made herself ready;^•

⁸and it was granted to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and pure; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.^•

⁹Then he says to me: Write: Blessed are those who have been called to the wedding supper of the Lamb. And he says to me: These words are true words of God.^•¹⁰And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me: See that you do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and of your brothers who have the Testimony of Jesus. Worship God; for the Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.^•

The Rider on the white horse

¹¹And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who sat on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.^•¹²His eyes are a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems, and He has a name written that no one knows except He Himself;^•¹³and He is clothed in a garment dipped in blood; and His name is called: the Word of God.^•¹⁴The armies that are in heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure.^•¹⁵From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike the nations; and He will shepherd them with a rod of iron; and He treads the winepress of the wine of the fury of the wrath of God, the Almighty.^•¹⁶He has on His garment and on His thigh a name written: King of kings and Lord of lords.^•

The great supper of God

¹⁷And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in midheaven: Come, gather together for the great supper of God,^•¹⁸to eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of commanders, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all, free and slaves, and small and great.^•

¹⁹And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered to make the war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army.^•²⁰Then the beast was seized, and with it the false prophet, who had performed before it the signs by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image; the two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.^•²¹The rest were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of Him who sat on the horse; and all the birds were filled with their flesh.^•

Notes

19:1 “As it were a loud voice of a great multitude”: cf. 7:9–10; 19:6. “Hallelujah”: Gr. ἁλληλουϊά, from the Hebrew, “praise Yah” (cf. Ps 104:35 [LXX 103:35]; 106:1, 48 [LXX 105:1, 48]). “Belong to our God”: the Greek has no verb (cf. 7:10; also 12:10). Variant: the Textus Receptus adds “and the honor” and reads “to the Lord our God”. ↩
19:2 “True and just are His judgments”: cf. 15:3; 16:7. “Corrupted”: Gr. ἔφθειρεν (cf. 11:18, διαφθείρω); the Byzantine text reads διέφθειρεν. “Has avenged the blood of His servants”: cf. 6:10; Deut 32:43; 2 Kgs 9:7. “At her hand”: that is, exacting it from her (cf. 2 Kgs 9:7; Rev 18:20). ↩
19:3 “A second time”: Gr. δεύτερον. “Said”: Gr. εἴρηκαν, perfect. “Her smoke goes up”: cf. 14:11; 18:9, 18; Isa 34:10. ↩
19:4 “Fell down and worshiped”: cf. 4:10; 5:14; 11:16. “Amen! Hallelujah!”: cf. Ps 106:48 [LXX 105:48]. ↩
19:5 “Praise our God”: Gr. αἰνεῖτε τῷ θεῷ ἡμῶν (cf. Ps 134:1 [LXX 133:1]; 135:1, 20 [LXX 134:1, 20]). “The small and the great”: cf. 11:18; 13:16; Ps 115:13 [LXX 113:21]. ↩
19:6 “Voice of many waters… of mighty thunders”: cf. 1:15; 14:2. “Has begun to reign”: Gr. ἐβασίλευσεν, aorist (cf. 11:17; Ps 93:1 [LXX 92:1]; 97:1 [LXX 96:1]; 99:1 [LXX 98:1]). “The Lord God”: the Byzantine text reads “the Lord our God”. ↩
19:7 “Let us rejoice and exult”: cf. Ps 118:24 [LXX 117:24]; Matt 5:12. “And we will give”: Gr. δώσομεν, future; the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus read “let us give”. “Wedding”: Gr. γάμος (cf. 19:9; Matt 22:2–14). “His wife”: Gr. ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ (cf. 21:2, 9; Isa 54:5–6; Hos 2:19–20 (Heb. 2:21–22)). ↩
19:8 “Clothe herself”: Gr. περιβάλλω. “Fine linen”: Gr. βύσσινος (cf. 18:12, 16; 19:14; also 15:6, Gr. λίνον). “Righteous acts”: Gr. δικαιώματα (cf. 15:4). Cf. Isa 61:10. ↩
19:9 “Write”: cf. 14:13. “Blessed”: cf. 1:3; 14:13; 16:15. “Wedding supper”: cf. Matt 22:2–10; Luke 14:15–24. “Have been called”: Gr. κεκλημένοι, perfect. “These words are true words of God”: lit. “these words true of God are” (cf. 21:5; 22:6). ↩
19:10 “To worship him”: cf. 22:8–9. “See that you do not do that”: Gr. ὅρα μή, lit. “see, not”. “Fellow servant”: Gr. σύνδουλος (cf. 6:11; 22:9). “The Testimony of Jesus”: cf. 1:2, 9; 12:17. “The Spirit of prophecy”: Gr. τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς προφητείας; the capital follows the usage of the book, in which “the Spirit” used absolutely is the Holy Spirit (cf. 2:7; 14:13; 22:17; 1 Pet 1:10–11; 2 Pet 1:21); alternative reading: “the spirit”, that is, the essence of prophecy. ↩
19:11 “He”: the capital follows the identification given by the text itself: “Faithful and True” (3:14), “the Word of God” (19:13), “King of kings and Lord of lords” (19:16; cf. 17:14). “Is called”: Gr. καλούμενος, participle. “Heaven opened”: cf. 4:1; Ezek 1:1. “White horse”: cf. 6:2. “Faithful and True”: cf. 1:5; 3:7, 14. “In righteousness He judges”: cf. Ps 96:13 [LXX 95:13]; Isa 11:4. ↩
19:12 “Eyes… a flame of fire”: cf. 1:14; 2:18; Dan 10:6; the Textus Receptus adds “as”. “Diadems”: Gr. διαδήματα (cf. 12:3; 13:1). “A name written that no one knows”: cf. 2:17; 3:12. Variant: the Byzantine text adds “names written, and”. ↩
19:13 “Clothed”: Gr. περιβάλλω. “Dipped in blood”: Gr. βεβαμμένον αἵματι (cf. Isa 63:1–3); some manuscripts read “sprinkled with blood”. “The Word of God”: Gr. ὁ Λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ (cf. John 1:1, 14; Rev 1:2, 9). “Is called”: Gr. κέκληται, perfect; the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus read καλεῖται. ↩
19:14 “Armies”: Gr. στρατεύματα. “Fine linen, white and pure”: cf. 19:8. ↩
19:15 “Sharp sword”: Gr. ῥομφαία ὀξεῖα (cf. 1:16; 2:12, 16; Isa 11:4; 49:2); the Byzantine text adds “two-edged”. “Strike”: Gr. πατάσσω (cf. 11:6). “Shepherd them with a rod of iron”: cf. 2:27; 12:5; Ps 2:9. “Treads the winepress”: cf. 14:19–20; Isa 63:3; Joel 3:13 (Heb. 4:13); the Textus Receptus reads “of the fury and of the wrath”. ↩
19:16 “Thigh”: Gr. μηρός. “King of kings and Lord of lords”: cf. 17:14; Deut 10:17; 1 Tim 6:15. ↩
19:17 “Birds that fly in midheaven”: cf. 8:13; 14:6. “Come, gather together”: Gr. δεῦτε συνάχθητε. “The great supper of God”: cf. Ezek 39:17–20; the Textus Receptus reads “the supper of the great God”. ↩
19:18 “Commanders”: Gr. χιλίαρχοι (cf. 6:15). “Free and slaves, and small and great”: cf. 6:15; 13:16. ↩
19:19 “Gathered to make the war”: Gr. τὸν πόλεμον, with the article (cf. 16:14, 16; 17:14; 20:8; Ps 2:2); the Byzantine text and the Textus Receptus omit the article. ↩
19:20 “Was seized”: Gr. ἐπιάσθη. “The false prophet”: cf. 13:11–17; 16:13. “Lake of fire that burns with sulfur”: cf. 14:10; 20:10, 14–15; 21:8; Dan 7:11. ↩
19:21 “The rest”: Gr. οἱ λοιποί (cf. 9:20). “Came out”: Gr. ἐξελθούσῃ, aorist; the Textus Receptus reads “comes out”. “Were filled”: cf. Ezek 39:4, 17–20. ↩