Let us rejoice and be happy\par and give God glory!\par Give God glory, because the wedding\par of the Lamb (Jesus) has come.\par And the Lamb’s bride (the church)\par has made herself ready.\par
Wake up! Wake up Zion! {\cf2\super [420]} \par Dress yourself!\par Put on your strength!\par Holy Jerusalem, stand up!\par People that have not agreed\par to follow God {\cf2\super [421]} \par will not enter you again.\par Those people are not pure and clean.\par
When a young man loves a woman,\par he marries her,\par and she becomes his wife.\par In the same way, your land will belong\par to your children.\par A man is very happy with his new wife.\par In the same way, your God\par will be very happy with you.”\par
Jerusalem, be happy!\par All you people who love Jerusalem,\par be happy!\par Sad things happened to Jerusalem,\par so some of you people are sad.\par But now you people should be happy.\par
You will see the things that you truly enjoy.\par You will be free and grow like grass.\par The Lord’s servants will see his power,\par but the Lord’s enemies will see his anger.\par
City of Zion, rejoice!\par People of Jerusalem, shout with joy!\par Look, your king is coming to you!\par He is the good king that won the victory.\par But he is humble.\par He is riding on a donkey,\par on a young donkey\par born from a work animal.\par
But after Joseph thought about this, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream. The angel said, “Joseph, son of David, {\cf2\super [11]} don’t be afraid to accept Mary to be your wife. The baby that is in her is from the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [12]}
Be like servants that are waiting for their master to come home from a wedding party. The master comes and knocks. The servants open the door for the master.
The bride always belongs to the bridegroom. {\cf2\super [55]} The friend that helps the bridegroom just waits and listens. He’s happy just to hear the bridegroom talk. That’s how I feel now. I’m so happy that he (Jesus) is here.
I feel jealousy for you. And this jealousy is a jealousy that comes from God. I promised to give you to Christ. Christ must be your only husband. I want to give you to Christ to be his pure bride. {\cf2\super [30]}
“The whole world should be happy for God’s people!
{Why? Because he helps them}—
he punishes people who kill
his servants.
He gives his enemies
the punishment they deserve.
And he makes his land and people pure. [217] ”
But we are the people who are truly circumcised. {\cf2\super [16]} We worship (serve) God through his Spirit. {\cf2\super [17]} We are proud to be in Christ Jesus. And we don’t trust in ourselves or anything we can do.
At that same time there was a great earthquake. One tenth of the city was destroyed. And 7,000 people were killed in the earthquake. The people that did not die were very afraid. They gave glory to the God of heaven.
Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Those people who are invited to the wedding meal of the Lamb are blessed (happy)!” Then the angel said, “These are the true words of God.”
And I saw the holy city coming down out of heaven from God. This holy city is the new Jerusalem. {\cf2\super [157]} It was prepared like a bride dressed for her husband.
One of the seven angels came to me. This was one of the angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last troubles. The angel said, “Come with me. I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”