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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Revelation 7 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/revelation/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Revelation 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../revelation/6.htm" title="Revelation 6">◄</a> Revelation 7 <a href="../revelation/8.htm" title="Revelation 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/revelation/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">God’s People Will Be Preserved</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds so they did not blow on the earth or the sea, or even on any tree. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And I saw another angel coming up from the east, carrying the seal of the living God. And he shouted to those four angels, who had been given power to harm land and sea, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Wait! Don’t harm the land or the sea or the trees until we have placed the seal of God on the foreheads of his servants.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I heard how many were marked with the seal of God—144,000 were sealed from all the tribes of Israel:</p><p class="b"/><table><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>from Judah</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left">from Reuben</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left">from Gad</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>from Asher</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left">from Naphtali</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left">from Manasseh</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>from Simeon</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left">from Levi</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left">from Issachar</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>from Zebulun</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left">from Joseph</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr><tr class="tr"><td class="tc1" align="left">from Benjamin</td><td class="tc2" align="right">12,000</td></tr></table><p class="hdg">Praise from the Great Crowd</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held palm branches in their hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they were shouting with a great roar,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne</p><p class="line2">and from the Lamb!”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living beings. And they fell before the throne with their faces to the ground and worshiped God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They sang,</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom</p><p class="line2">and thanksgiving and honor</p><p class="line1">and power and strength belong to our God</p><p class="line2">forever and ever! Amen.”</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then one of the twenty-four elders asked me, “Who are these who are clothed in white? Where did they come from?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.”</p><p class="reg">Then he said to me, “These are the ones who died in<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> the great tribulation.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> They have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“That is why they stand in front of God’s throne</p><p class="line2">and serve him day and night in his Temple.</p><p class="line1">And he who sits on the throne</p><p class="line2">will give them shelter.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They will never again be hungry or thirsty;</p><p class="line2">they will never be scorched by the heat of the sun.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the Lamb on the throne<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line2">will be their Shepherd.</p><p class="line1">He will lead them to springs of life-giving water.</p><p class="line2">And God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:14a </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">who came out of.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:14b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the great suffering.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="it">on the center of the throne.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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