Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it — for the time is nigh!
O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.
And Jeremiah saith unto Seraiah, ‘When thou dost enter Babylon, then thou hast seen, and hast read all these words,
‘Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)
And he said, ‘Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping [it]!’
And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already [is] to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer [is] our salvation than when we did believe;
the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,
And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;
And he saith to me, ‘Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;
And lo, I come quickly, and my reward [is] with me, to render to each as his work shall be;
he saith — who is testifying these things — ‘Yes, I come quickly!’ Amen! Yes, be coming, Lord Jesus!
Lo, I come quickly, be holding fast that which thou hast, that no one may receive thy crown.