And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
and heaven departed as a scroll rolled up, and every mountain and island--out of their places they were moved;
And the heaven was removed as a book rolled up, and every mountain and island were removed out of their places.
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both