A New Heaven and a New Earth (Isaiah 65:17–25)
2 TNT And I Ihon sawe that holy cite newe Ierusalem come doune from God oute of heven prepared as a bryde garnysshed for hyr husband. BSB BSB: I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
5 TNT And he that sate apon the seate sayde: Behold I make all thynges newe. And he sayde vnto me: wryte for these wordes are faythfull and true. BSB BSB: And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Then He said, “Write this down, for these words are faithful and true.”
6 TNT And he sayde vnto me: it is done I am Alpha and Omega the begynnynge and the ende. I will geve to him that is a thyrst of the well of the water of lyfe fre. BSB BSB: And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
7 TNT He that overcometh shall inheret all thynges and I will be his God and he shalbe my sonne. BSB BSB: The one who overcomes will inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he will be My son.
8 TNT But the fearefull and vnbelevynge and the abhominable and murdrers and whormongers and sorcerers and ydolaters and all lyars shall have their parte in the lake which burnyth with fyre and brymstone which is the seconde deth. BSB BSB: But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
The New Jerusalem 9 TNT And there cam vnto me one of the vii. angels which had the vii. vyals full of the vii. laste plages: and talked with me sayinge: come hydder I will shewe the the bryde the lambes wyfe. BSB BSB: Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
10 TNT And he caryed me awaye in the sprete to a grett and an hye mountayne and he shewed me the grett cite holy Ierusalem descendinge out of heven from God BSB BSB: And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
11 TNT havynge the brightnes of God. And her shynynge was lyke vnto a stone moste precious even a Iaspar cleare as cristall: BSB BSB: shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal.
12 TNT and had walles grett and hye and had xii gates and at the gates xii. angels: and names written which are the xii. trybes of Israell: BSB BSB: The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.
13 TNT on the est parte iii gatis and on the north syde iii gates and to wardes the south iii gates and from the west iii gates: BSB BSB: There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west.
14 TNT and the wall of the cite had xii foundacions and in them the names of the lambes .xii. Apostles. BSB BSB: The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15 TNT And he that talked with me had a golden read to measure the cite with all and the gates therof and the wall therof. BSB BSB: The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.
16 TNT And the cite was bylt iiii. square and the length was as large as the bredth of it and he measured the cite with the rede .xii M. fur longes: and the lenght and the bredth and the heyth of it were equall. BSB BSB: The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
17 TNT And he measured the wall therof. an cxliiii. cubittes: the measure that the angell had was after the measure that man vseth. BSB BSB: And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.
18 TNT And the byldinge of the wall of it was of iaspar. And the cite was pure gold lyke vnto cleare glasse BSB BSB: The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.
19 TNT and the foundacions of the wall of the cite was garnisshed with all maner of precious stones The fyrste foundacion was iaspar the seconde saphyre the thyrde a calcedony the fourth an emeralde: BSB BSB: The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
20 TNT the fyft sardonix: the sixt sardeos: the seventh crysolite the ayght berall: the nynth a topas: the tenth a crysoprasos: the eleventh a iacyncte: the twelfe an amatist. BSB BSB: the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
21 TNT The xii. gates were xii pearles every gate was of one pearle and the strete of the cite was pure golde as thorowe shynynge glasse. BSB BSB: And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.
22 TNT And there was no temple therin. For the lord god allmyghty and the lambe are the temple of it BSB BSB: But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 TNT and the cite hath no nede of the sonne nether of the mone to lyghten it. For the bryghtnes of God dyd light it: and the lambe was the light of it. BSB BSB: And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
24 TNT And the people which are saved shall walke in the light of it: and the kynges of the erth shall brynge their glory vnto it. BSB BSB: By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.
25 TNT And the gates of it are not shut by daye. For there shalbe no nyght there. BSB BSB: Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
27 TNT And there shall entre into it none vnclene thynge: nether what soever worketh abhominacion: or maketh lyes: but they only which are wrytten in the lambes boke of lyfe. BSB BSB: But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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