Revelation 7

1After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind might blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

2And I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God, and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it had been given to harm the earth and the sea,

3saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

4And I heard the number of those who had been sealed: one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel.

5from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed; from the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand.

6from the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand;

7from the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand.

8from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand, having been sealed.

9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one was able to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

10And they cry out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

11And all the angels were standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God,

12saying, “Amen! The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanksgiving and the honor and the power and the might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.”

13Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are clothed in the white robes—who are they, and where have they come from?”

14And I said to him, “My lord, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”

15For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will spread his tent over them.

16They will hunger no more, nor thirst anymore; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat.

17because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will shepherd them, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.