11 ¹ I was given a long cane, a kind of measuring-rod, and told: 'Now go and measure the temple of God, the altar, and the number of the worshippers. 11 ² But have nothing to do with the outer court of the temple; do not measure that; for it has been given over to the Gentiles, and they will trample the Holy City underfoot for forty-two months. 11 ³ And I have two witnesses, whom I will appoint to prophesy, dressed in sackcloth, all through those twelve hundred and sixty days.'

11 ⁴ These are the two olive-trees and the two lamps that stand in the presence of the Lord of the earth. 11 ⁵ If anyone seeks to do them harm, fire pours from their mouths and consumes their enemies; and thus shall the man die who seeks to do them harm. 11 ⁶ These two have the power to shut up the sky, so that no rain may fall during the time of their prophesying; and they have the power to turn water to blood and to strike the earth at will with every kind of plague. 11 ⁷ But when they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will wage war upon them and will defeat and kill them. 11 ⁸ Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city, whose name in allegory is Sodom, or Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 11 ⁹ For three days and a half men from every people and tribe, of every language and nation, gaze upon their corpses and refuse them burial. 11 ¹⁰ All men on earth gloat over them, make merry, and exchange presents; for these two prophets were a torment to the whole earth. 11 ¹¹ But at the end of the three days and a half the breath of life from God came into them; and they stood up on their feet to the terror of all who saw it. 11 ¹² Then a loud voice was heard speaking to them from heaven, which said, 'Come up here!' And they went up to heaven in a cloud, in full view of their enemies. 11 ¹³ At that same moment there was a violent earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake; the rest in terror did homage to the God of heaven.

11 ¹⁴ The second woe has now passed. But the third is soon to come.