1Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. (Isa 65:17)2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Look! God’s dwelling-place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.4“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death” or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.’ (Isa 25:8)5He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.’6He said to me: ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.7Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.8But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practise magic arts, the idolaters and all liars – they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is the second death.’
The new Jerusalem, the bride of the Lamb
9One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.’10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.11It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.12It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.13There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.14The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.15The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls.16The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia[1] in length, and as wide and high as it is long.17The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits[2] thick.[3]18The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass.19The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,20the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.[4]21The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.22I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.23The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.24The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendour into it.25On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.26The glory and honour of the nations will be brought into it.27Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
9Тогава дойде един от седемте ангела, които бяха натоварени със седемте последни язви и държаха седемте чаши, и ми заговори: Ела, ще ти покажа невестата, жената на Агнеца. (Re 15:1; Re 15:6; Re 15:7; Re 19:7; Re 21:2)10И ме отведе чрез Духа на една голяма и висока планина и ми показа святия град, Йерусалим, който слизаше от небето, от Бога, (Re 1:10; Re 17:3; Re 21:2)11и имаше божествена слава като светеше, както свети някой много скъпоценен камък, като яспис, прозрачен като кристал. (Re 21:23; Re 22:5)12Градът имаше голяма и висока стена с дванадесет порти и на портите дванадесет ангела, и написани над портите имена, които са имената на дванадесетте племена на израилтяните: (Eze 48:31)13откъм изток три порти, откъм север три порти, откъм юг три порти и откъм запад три порти. (Eze 48:31)14И градската стена имаше дванадесет основни камъка с дванадесет имена на тях, имената на дванадесетте апостоли на Агнеца. (Mt 16:18; Ga 2:9; Eph 2:20)15И този, който говореше с мене, имаше за мярка златна тръстикова пръчка, за да измери града, портите и стената му. (Eze 40:3; Zec 2:1; Re 11:1)16Градът беше квадратен, с дължина, равна на широчината му; и като измери града с тръстиковата пръчка, излезе дванадесет хиляди стадии. Дължината, широчината и височината му са еднакви.17Измери и стената му, която излезе сто четиридесет и четири лакти; а това беше човешка мярка, употребена от ангела.18Стената му беше изградена от яспис, а самият град – от чисто злато, подобно на чисто стъкло.19Основните камъни на градските стени бяха украсени с всякакви скъпоценни камъни: първият основен камък беше яспис, вторият сапфир, третият халцедон, четвъртият смарагд, (Ex 28:17; Isa 54:11)20петият сардоникс, шестият сард, седмият хризолит, осмият берил, деветият топаз, десетият хризопрас, единадесетият хиацинт, дванадесетият аметист.21И дванадесетте порти бяха дванадесет бисера; всяка порта беше от един бисер; и улицата на града беше от чисто злато, прозрачно като стъкло. (Re 22:2)22А храм не видях в него, защото неговият храм е Господ Бог Всемогъщият и Агнецът. (Joh 4:23)23И градът нямаше нужда от слънце, нито от луна да го осветява, защото Божията слава го осветяваше и неговото светило е Агнецът. (Isa 24:23; Isa 60:19; Isa 60:20; Re 21:11; Re 22:5)24И народите ще ходят в неговата светлина и земните царе ще принасят в него своята слава. (Isa 60:3; Isa 60:5; Isa 60:11; Isa 66:12)25Портите му няма да се затварят денем (а нощ няма да има там); (Isa 60:11; Isa 60:20; Zec 14:7; Re 22:5)26и народите ще принасят в него слава и почест. (Re 21:24)27И в него няма да влезе нищо нечисто, нито онзи, който върши мерзост и който лъже, а само записаните в книгата на живота на Агнеца. (Isa 35:8; Isa 52:1; Isa 60:21; Joe 3:17; Php 4:3; Re 3:5; Re 13:8; Re 20:12; Re 22:14; Re 22:15)