Bible Gateway passage: Revelation 7 - New King James Version (2024)

The Sealed of Israel

7After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, ^(A)holding the four winds of the earth, ^(B)that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. ²Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, ³saying, ^(C)“Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God ^(D)on their foreheads.” ^4(E)And I heard the number of those who were sealed. ^(F)One hundred and forty-four thousand ^(G)of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed:

⁵of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were ^[a]sealed;
of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed;
⁶of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed;
⁷of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed;
⁸of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand were sealed;
of the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

A Multitude from the Great Tribulation

⁹After these things I looked, and behold, ^(H)a great multitude which no one could number, ^(I)of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, ^(J)clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, ¹⁰and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ^(K)“Salvation belongs to our God ^(L)who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” ^11(M)All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and ^(N)worshiped God, ^12(O)saying:

“Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom,
Thanksgiving and honor and power and might,
Be to our God forever and ever.
Amen.”

¹³Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these arrayed in ^(P)white robes, and where did they come from?”

¹⁴And I said to him, ^[b]“Sir, you know.”

So he said to me, ^(Q)“These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and ^(R)washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. ¹⁵Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will ^(S)dwell among them. ^16(T)They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; ^(U)the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; ¹⁷for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne ^(V)will shepherd them and lead them to ^[c]living fountains of waters. ^(W)And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”