Revelation 12
1 Then a great portent was seen in the heavens – a woman whose robe was the sun, and who had the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
天上現出大異象來：有一個婦人身披日頭，腳踏月亮，頭戴十二星的冠冕。
2 She was pregnant; and she is crying out in the pain and agony of childbirth.
她懷了孕，在生產的艱難中疼痛呼叫。
3 Another portent also was seen in the heavens There was a great red Dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.
天上又現出異象來：有一條大紅龍，七頭十角；七頭上戴着七個冠冕。
4 His tail draws after it a third of the stars in the heavens, and it hurled them down on the earth. The Dragon is standing in front of the woman who is about to give birth to the child, so that he may devour it as soon as it is born.
牠的尾巴拖拉着天上星辰的三分之一，摔在地上。龍就站在那將要生產的婦人面前，等她生產之後，要吞吃她的孩子。
5 The woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was at once caught up to God on his throne.
婦人生了一個男孩子，是將來要用鐵杖轄管萬國的；她的孩子被提到上帝寶座那裏去了。
6 But the woman fled into the wilderness, where there is a place prepared for her by God, to be tended there for twelve hundred and sixty days.
婦人就逃到曠野，在那裏有上帝給她預備的地方，使她被養活一千二百六十天。
7 Then a battle took place in the heavens. Michael and his angels fought with the Dragon. But though the Dragon, with his angels, fought,
在天上就有了爭戰。米迦勒同他的使者與龍爭戰，龍也同牠的使者去爭戰，
8 he did not prevail; and there was no place left for them any longer in the heavens.
並沒有得勝，天上再沒有牠們的地方。
9 Then the great Dragon, the primeval snake, known as the “devil” and “Satan,” who deceives all the world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
大龍就是那古蛇，名叫魔鬼，又叫撒但，是迷惑普天下的。牠被摔在地上，牠的使者也一同被摔下去。
10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven which said – “Now has begun the day of the salvation, and Power, and Dominion of our God, and the Rule of his Christ; for the Accuser of our people has been hurled down, he who has been accusing them before our God day and night.
我聽見在天上有大聲音說：「我上帝的救恩、能力、國度，並他基督的權柄，現在都來到了！因為那在我們上帝面前晝夜控告我們弟兄的，已經被摔下去了。
11 Their victory was due to the blood of the Lamb, and to the message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.
弟兄勝過牠，是因羔羊的血和自己所見證的道。他們雖至於死，也不愛惜性命。
12 Therefore, be glad, heaven, and all who live in heaven! Alas for the earth and for the sea, for the devil has gone down to you in great fury, knowing that he has but little time.”
所以，諸天和住在其中的，你們都快樂吧！只是地與海有禍了！因為魔鬼知道自己的時候不多，就氣忿忿地下到你們那裏去了。」
13 When the Dragon saw that he was hurled down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
龍見自己被摔在地上，就逼迫那生男孩子的婦人。
14 But to the woman were given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly to her place in the wilderness, where she is being tended for one year, and for two years, and for half a year in safety from the snake.
於是有大鷹的兩個翅膀賜給婦人，叫她能飛到曠野，到自己的地方，躲避那蛇；她在那裏被養活一載二載半載。
15 Then the snake poured water from its mouth after the woman, like a river, so that it might sweep her away.
蛇就在婦人身後，從口中吐出水來，像河一樣，要將婦人沖去。
16 But Earth came to her help, and opened her mouth and drank up the river which the Dragon had poured out of its mouth.
地卻幫助婦人，開口吞了從龍口吐出來的水。
17 The Dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to fight with the rest of her offspring – those who lay to heart the commands of God and bear their testimony to Jesus;
龍向婦人發怒，去與她其餘的兒女爭戰，這兒女就是那守上帝誡命、為耶穌作見證的。
