I will empower[a] my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days,[b](A) dressed in sackcloth.”[c] These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord[d] of the earth.(B) If anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies;(C) if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:3 Lit I will give to
  2. Revelation 11:3 = 3½ years of 30-day months
  3. Revelation 11:3 Mourning garment of coarse, often black, material
  4. Revelation 11:4 Other mss read God

And I will appoint my two witnesses,(A) and they will prophesy for 1,260 days,(B) clothed in sackcloth.”(C) They are “the two olive trees”(D) and the two lampstands, and “they stand before the Lord of the earth.”[a](E) If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies.(F) This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.(G)

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  1. Revelation 11:4 See Zech. 4:3,11,14.