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Revelation 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
9 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
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Lo! what a glorious sight appears
to our admiring eyes!
The former seas have passed away,
the former earth and skies.
From heav’n the New Jerus’lem comes,
all worthy of its Lord;
See all things now at last renewed,
and paradise restored!
Attending angels shout for joy,
and the bright armies sing;
Mortals! behold the sacred seat
of your descending King!
The God of glory down to men
removes his bless’d abode;
He dwells with men; his people they,
and he his people’s God.
His gracious hand shall wipe the tears
from ev’ry weeping eye:
And pains and groans, and griefs and fears,
and death itself, shall die.
Behold, I change all human things!
saith he, whose words are true;
Lo! what was old is passed away,
and all things are made new!
I am the First, and I the Last,
through endless years the same;
I AM, is my memorial still,
and my eternal name.
Ho, ye that thirst! to you my grace
shall hidden streams disclose,
And open full the sacred spring,
whence life for ever flows.
Bless’d is the man that overcomes;
I’ll own him for a son;
A rich inheritance rewards
the conquests he hath won.
But bloody hands and hearts unclean,
and all the lying race,
The faithless, and the scoffing crew,
who spurn at offered grace;
They, seized by justice, shall be doomed
in dark abyss to lie,
And in the fiery burning lake
the second death shall die.
O may we stand before the Lamb,
when earth and seas are fled,
And hear the judge pronounce our name,
with blessings on our bead!
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