| Line 2: |
Line 2: |
| | | | |
| | <center><small>''The 144,000.<br/>The fall of Babylon.</small></center> | | <center><small>''The 144,000.<br/>The fall of Babylon.</small></center> |
| − |
| |
| | | | |
| | '''1''' And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty ''and'' four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. | | '''1''' And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty ''and'' four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. |
| Line 40: |
Line 39: |
| | '''18''' And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. | | '''18''' And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. |
| | | | |
| − | '''19''' And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast ''it'' into the great winepress of the wrath of God. | + | '''19''' And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast ''it'' into the great winepress of the wrath of God.<ref>This verse, 14:19, is the "[[Grapes of Wrath]]" line that became the title of [[John Steinbeck]]'s classic [[novel]] and was a reason for awarding him the the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1962.</ref> |
| | | | |
| | '''20''' And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand ''and'' six hundred furlongs. | | '''20''' And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand ''and'' six hundred furlongs. |