Moffatt(i)
3 But I will allow my two witnesses to prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clad in sackcloth
4 (they are the two olive-trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of the earth):
5 whoever tries to harm them, fire will issue from their mouth and consume their enemies; whoever should try to harm them, so must he be killed."
6 They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose.
7 But, when they have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascends from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,
8 and their corpses will lie in the streets of that great City whose mystical name is Sodom and Egypt — where their Lord also was crucified.
9 For three days and a half men from all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations look at their corpses, refusing to let their corpses be buried;
10 and the dwellers on earth will gloat over them and rejoice, sending presents to congratulate one another — for these two prophets were a torment to the dwellers on earth.
11 But after three days and a half the breath of life from God entered them; they stood on their feet (terror fell on those who saw them)