For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

因为他等候那座有根基的城，就是神所经营所建造的。

因为他等候着那座有根基的城，就是上帝所设计和建造的。

因为他等候着那座有根基的城，就是神所设计和建造的。

因为他盼望的是一座有根基的城，是由上帝设计、建造的。

因为他等待那座有根基的城，就是神所设计所建造的。

因为他等待着那座有根基的城；那城是神所设计、所建造的。

因為他等候那座有根基的城，就是神所經營所建造的。

因為他等候着那座有根基的城，就是上帝所設計和建造的。

因為他等候着那座有根基的城，就是神所設計和建造的。

因為他盼望的是一座有根基的城，是由上帝設計、建造的。

因為他等待那座有根基的城，就是神所設計所建造的。

因為他期待着那有根基的城，就是上帝做其設計者和建造者的。

因為他等待著那座有根基的城；那城是神所設計、所建造的。

蓋望有基之邑其營之造之者、上帝也、

俟上帝所建造鞏固之邑、

希望天主所經營建造有基之邑、

蓋彼所企望者、乃一具有根基之城府、天主所營、天主所築也。

For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Abraham was looking forward to the city that has foundations. He was waiting for the city that God planned and built.

For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God.

For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker[ is] God.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in, is dismantled, we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.

But you have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

And I saw the holy city– the new Jerusalem– descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

So he took me away in the Spirit to a huge, majestic mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal- clear jasper.It has a massive, high wall with twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel are written on the gates.There are three gates on the east side, three gates on the north side, three gates on the south side and three gates on the west side.The wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.Now the city is laid out as a square, its length and width the same. He measured the city with the measuring rod at fourteen hundred miles( its length and width and height are equal).He also measured its wall, one hundred forty- four cubits according to human measurement, which is also the angel’s.The city’s wall is made of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.The foundations of the city’s wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.And the twelve gates are twelve pearls– each one of the gates is made from just one pearl! The main street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass.Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God– the All- Powerful– and the Lamb are its temple.The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it.Its gates will never be closed during the day( and there will be no night there).They will bring the grandeur and the wealth of the nations into it,but nothing ritually unclean will ever enter into it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or practices falsehood, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

How will they respond to the messengers of this nation? Indeed, the LORD has made Zion secure; the oppressed among his people will find safety in her.

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.