1 And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in Heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! The salvation, and the glory, and the power [belong] to the LORD our God; 2 because true and righteous [are] His judgments, because He judged the great whore who corrupted the earth in her whoredom, and He avenged the blood of His servants at her hand”; 3 and a second time they said, “Hallelujah”; and her smoke comes up through the ages of the ages! 4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and they worshiped God who is sitting on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!” 5 And a voice out of the throne came forth, saying, “Praise our God, all you His servants, and those fearing Him, both the small and the great”; 6 and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, “Hallelujah! Because our Lord, the God, the Almighty, has reigned! 7 May we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready; 8 and there was given to her that she may be clothed with fine linen, pure and radiant, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the holy ones.” 9 And he says to me, “Write: Blessed [are] they who have been called to the banquet of the marriage of the Lamb”; and he says to me, “These [are] the true words of God”; 10 and I fell before his feet to worship him, and he says to me, “Behold—No! I am your fellow servant, and of your brothers, those having the testimony of Jesus; worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.” 11 And I saw Heaven having been opened, and behold, a white horse, and He who is sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war, 12 and His eyes [are] as a flame of fire, and on His head [are] many crowns—having a Name written that no one has known, except Himself, 13 and He is clothed with a garment covered with blood, and His Name is called, The Word of God. 14 And the armies in Heaven were following Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen—white and pure; 15 and out of His mouth proceeds a sharp sword, that with it He may strike the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron, and He treads the press of the wine of the wrath and the anger of God the Almighty, 16 and He has on the garment and on His thigh the name written: “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” 17 And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried [with] a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in midair, “Come and be gathered together to the banquet of the great God [[or the great banquet of God]], 18 that you may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiefs of thousands, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses, and of those sitting on them, and the flesh of all—freemen and servants—both small and great.” 19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with Him who is sitting on the horse, and with His army; 20 and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image; the two were cast living into the lake of the fire that is burning with brimstone; 21 and the rest were killed with the sword of Him who is sitting on the horse, which is proceeding out of His mouth, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
Revelation · Literal Standard Version
Revelation 19 Literal Standard Version
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- 1 Revelation 7:10–12; Revelation 11:15; 1 Chronicles 29:11; Matthew 6:13; Revelation 5:9–13
- 2 Deuteronomy 32:43; Revelation 6:10; Revelation 18:20; Revelation 16:5–7; Deuteronomy 32:35
- 3 Isaiah 34:10; Revelation 18:18; Revelation 18:9; Jude 7; Revelation 14:11
- 4 Revelation 5:14; Nehemiah 8:6; Psalm 106:48; Psalm 89:52; Psalm 72:19
- 5 Psalm 134:1; Psalm 148:11–13; Psalm 150:6; Psalm 135:1; Revelation 7:15
- 6 Psalm 97:1; Revelation 14:2; Psalm 93:1; Psalm 29:3–9; Ezekiel 1:24
- 7 Revelation 21:9; Revelation 21:2; Revelation 19:9; Matthew 22:2; 2 Corinthians 11:2
- 8 Isaiah 61:10; Revelation 7:13–14; Ephesians 5:26–27; Psalm 132:9; Mark 9:3
- 9 Luke 14:15–16; Revelation 22:6; Matthew 22:2–4; Revelation 3:20; Revelation 1:19
- 10 Revelation 22:8–9; Acts 10:25–26; John 5:39; Hebrews 1:14; Exodus 34:14
- 11 Psalm 96:13; Isaiah 11:3–5; Psalm 98:9; Psalm 50:6; Revelation 6:2
- 12 Revelation 19:16; Luke 10:22; Matthew 11:27; Revelation 2:17–18; Revelation 1:14
- 13 John 1:1; Isaiah 63:1–6; John 1:14; Psalm 58:10; Revelation 14:20
- 14 Jude 14; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 17:14; Revelation 19:8; Revelation 19:11
- 15 Isaiah 63:2–6; Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Psalm 2:9
- 16 Revelation 17:14; 1 Timothy 6:15; Daniel 2:47; Philippians 2:9–11; Revelation 19:12–13
- 17 Revelation 19:21; Revelation 8:13; Jeremiah 12:9; Ezekiel 39:17–20; Isaiah 34:1–8
- 18 Ezekiel 39:18–20; Revelation 6:15; 1 Samuel 17:46; Deuteronomy 28:26; Jeremiah 16:4
- 19 Revelation 16:16; Revelation 16:14; Daniel 8:25; Revelation 18:9; Daniel 11:40–45
- 20 Revelation 20:10; Revelation 21:8; Revelation 20:14–15; Daniel 7:7–14; 2 Thessalonians 2:8–11
- 21 Revelation 19:11–15; Revelation 1:16; Revelation 19:17–19; Revelation 17:16
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And He hath upon His vesture and upon His thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords." Thus does the Word of God always preserve the outlines, as it were, of things to come, and points out to men the various forms (species), as it were, of the dispensations of the Father, teaching us the things pertaining …
… wonderful vision had been shown him, he trembled, and fell down at the Angel's feet; but that Angel, who sought not but the glory of God, said, "See thou do it not; for I am a fellow-servant of thee, and of thy brethren the prophets." What then, my brethren?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
And further, if the Creator and Lord of all things is called also King of Kings and Lord of Lords and God of Gods, surely also the saints are gods and lords and kings.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)
… person the apostasy, and accomplishes whatever he shall do according to his own will and choice, sitting also in the temple of God, so that his dupes may adore him as the Christ; wherefore also shall he deservedly "be cast into the lake of fire:" [this will happen according to divine appointment], God by His prescience foreseeing all this, and …