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Then I heard what sounded like a great many people, like the noise of flooding water, and like the noise of loud thunder. The people were saying:

“Hallelujah!
    Our Lord God, the Almighty, rules.
Let us rejoice and be happy
    and give God glory,
because the wedding of the Lamb has come,
    and the Lamb’s bride has made herself ready.
Fine linen, bright and clean, was given to her to wear.”

(The fine linen means the good things done by God’s holy people.)

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Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude,(A) like the roar of rushing waters(B) and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:

“Hallelujah!(C)
    For our Lord God Almighty(D) reigns.(E)
Let us rejoice and be glad
    and give him glory!(F)
For the wedding of the Lamb(G) has come,
    and his bride(H) has made herself ready.
Fine linen,(I) bright and clean,
    was given her to wear.”

(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts(J) of God’s holy people.)

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