)saying: 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.

(13)And one of the elders answered, saying to me: These who are
clothed in the white robes, who are they, and whence came they?
(14)And I said to him: Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are
they who come out of the great affliction, and they washed their
robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (15)Therefore are
they before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his
temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over
them[7:15]. (16)They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more;
neither shall the sun fall upon them, nor any heat; (17)because the
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and
will lead them to the fountains of the waters of life; and God will
wipe away every tear from their eyes.

VIII.

AND when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about
half an hour.

(2)And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and there were
given to them seven trumpets. (3)And another angel came and stood over
the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much
incense, that he should give it to the prayers of all the saints, upon
the golden altar which is before the throne. (4)And there went up the
smoke of the incense to the prayers of the saints, out of the hand of
the angel, before God.

(5)And the angel has taken the censer; and he filled it out of the
fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth. And there followed
thunders, and lightnings, and voices, and an earthquake.

(6)And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared
themselves, that they might sound.

(7)The first sounded; and there followed hail and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast into the earth, and the third part of the
earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and
all green grass was burnt up.

(8)And the second angel sounded; and as it were a great mountain
burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea
became blood; (9)and the third part of the creatures that are in the
sea, that have life, died; and the third part of the ships were
destroyed.

(10)And the third angel sounded; and there fell out of heaven a great
star, burning as a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the
rivers, and upon the