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 would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. ²And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, holding the seal of the living God, and he cried out with a great voice to the four angels who had been given authority 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 were sealed: one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel— ⁵from the tribe of Judah twelve thousand 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 sealed.

⁹After these things I looked, and behold—a vast crowd that no one could count, from every nation and tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰And they cry out with a great voice, saying, "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!"

¹¹And all the angels stood encircling the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, ¹²saying, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength be to our God unto the ages of ages! Amen."

¹³And one of the elders spoke up and said 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, and they have 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 sanctuary, and the one who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. ¹⁶They will hunger no more, nor will they thirst anymore, nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any scorching heat, ¹⁷because the Lamb at the center of the throne will shepherd them and guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."