Revelation 7 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the land, the sea, or on any tree.

Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, carrying the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to damage the land and the sea:

"Don't damage the land or the sea or the trees until we've put the seal on the foreheads of those who serve our God."

And I heard the number of those who were sealed: one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of Israel's descendants:

From the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed; from the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand;

from the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand;

from the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand;

from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand; from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand.

After this I looked, and there was an enormous crowd that no one could count — from every nation, tribe, people, and language — standing in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands,

and they were calling out in a loud voice: "Rescue belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"

All the angels were standing around the throne with the elders and the four living creatures. They fell facedown before the throne and worshipped God,

saying, "Yes! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength belong to our God forever and ever. Yes!"

Then one of the elders asked me, "These people wearing white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?"

I answered, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who have come through the great suffering. They have washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb's blood."

That's why they are in front of God's throne, serving him day and night in his temple. And the one who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.

They will never be hungry again, and they will never be thirsty again. The sun won't beat down on them, and no scorching heat will burn them,

because the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd. He will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.