启示录 14:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們在寶座前，在四個活物和眾長老面前唱新歌；除了從地上買來的那十四萬四千人以外，沒有人能學這歌。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 在 宝 座 前 ， 并 在 四 活 物 和 众 长 老 前 唱 歌 ， 彷 佛 是 新 歌 ； 除 了 从 地 上 买 来 的 那 十 四 万 四 千 人 以 外 ， 没 有 人 能 学 这 歌 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion. With him were one hundred forty-four thousand people who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. ² And I heard a sound from heaven like the noise of flooding water and like the sound of loud thunder. The sound I heard was like people playing harps. ³ And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the new song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who had been bought from the earth. ⁴ These are the ones who did not do sinful things with women, because they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb every place he goes. These one hundred forty-four thousand were bought from among the people of the earth as people to be offered to God and the Lamb. ⁵ They were not guilty of telling lies; they are without fault.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a: Revelation 5:9, Revelation 15:3, Psalms 33:3, Psalms 40:3, Psalms 96:1, Psalms 98:1, Psalms 144:9, Psalms 149:1, Isaiah 42:10

throne: Revelation 4:2-11

no: Revelation 14:1, Revelation 2:17, Psalms 25:14, Matthew 11:25-27, 1 Corinthians 1:18, 1 Corinthians 2:14

redeemed: Revelation 5:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:21 - Sing ye 1 Kings 10:12 - harps 1 Chronicles 23:30 - stand 2 Chronicles 20:28 - with psalteries Psalms 68:25 - the players Psalms 95:1 - sing Psalms 98:5 - General Psalms 116:15 - Precious Matthew 26:29 - until Luke 12:37 - that Galatians 4:5 - redeem Colossians 3:16 - and spiritual Hebrews 9:15 - for James 5:13 - let him sing Revelation 4:6 - four beasts Revelation 5:8 - having Revelation 7:4 - an Revelation 7:15 - are Revelation 8:13 - flying Revelation 21:17 - an

Cross-References

Genesis 19:24
The Lord sent a rain of burning sulfur down from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah

Numbers 34:12
Then the border will go down along the Jordan River and end at the Dead Sea. "‘These are the borders around your country.'"

Deuteronomy 3:17
The border on the west was the Jordan River in the Jordan Valley, and it goes from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea west of Mount Pisgah.

Joshua 3:16
the water upstream stopped flowing. It stood up in a heap a great distance away at Adam, a town near Zarethan. The water flowing down to the Sea of Arabah (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed the river near Jericho.

Psalms 107:34
He made fertile land salty, because the people there did evil.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they sung as it were a new song,.... The song of redeeming grace; the same with that in Revelation 5:9; see the note there: this is to be understood of the 144,000, who sung it

before the throne, and before the four beasts and the elders; that is, publicly in the church, the ministers and members being present; of these; Revelation 5:9- :;

Revelation 5:9- :;

and no man could learn that song but the hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth; out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation; from among the men of the earth, and out of the apostate church, called the earth, in opposition to the pure church, which so often goes by the name of heaven in this book; and these, in consequence of being redeemed by the blood of Christ, were called by grace out of the world; and such only can sing the song of redemption with application to themselves; and say he has redeemed us, and loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood; to none but these is it given to know spiritually and experimentally the mysteries of electing and redeeming grace; the natural and carnal man neither knows nor receives the things of the Spirit of God; nor can he learn them by hearing, reading, study, and conversation, unless it be only in a notional and speculative way. The Jews speak of a new song, which the angels have never used m;

"it is said, Psalms 98:1; "sing unto the Lord a new song"; a new song, for there is an old song; but this song is what the angels never praised him with, and therefore it is new;''

and indeed the song of redeeming love is peculiar to men.

m Zohar in Numb. fol. 70. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they sung as it were a new song - See the notes on Revelation 5:9. It was proper to call this “new,” because it was on a new occasion, or pertained to a new object. The song here was in celebration of the complete redemption of the church, and was the song to be sung in view of its final triumph over all its foes. Compare notes on Revelation 7:9-10.

Before the throne - The throne of God in heaven. See the notes on Revelation 4:2.

And before the four beasts - See the notes on Revelation 4:6-8.

And the elders - See the notes on Revelation 4:4.

And no man could learn that song, ... - None could understand it but the redeemed. That is, none who had not been redeemed could enter fully into the feelings and sympathies of those who were. A great truth is taught here. To appreciate fully the songs of Zion; to understand the language of praise; to enter into the spirit of the truths which pertain to redemption; one must himself have been redeemed by the blood of Christ. He must have known what it is to be a sinner under the condemnation of a holy law; he must have known what it is to be in danger of eternal death; he must have experienced the joys of pardon, or he can never understand, in its true import, the language used by the redeemed. And this is only saying what we are familiar with in other things. He who is saved from peril; he who is rescued from long captivity; he who is pardoned at the foot of the scaffold; he who is recovered from dangerous illness; he who presses to his bosom a beloved child just rescued from a watery grave, will have an appreciation of the language of joy and triumph which he can never understand who has not been placed in such circumstances: but of all the joy ever experienced in the universe, so far as we can see, that must be the most sublime and transporting, which will be experienced when the redeemed shall stand on Mount Zion above, and shall realize that they are saved.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 14:3. They sung-a new song — Revelation 5:9; Revelation 5:9.

No man could learn that song — As none but genuine Christians can worship God acceptably, because they approach him through the only Mediator, so none can understand the deep things of God but such; nor can others know the cause why true believers exult so much in God through Christ, because they know not the communion which such hold with the Father and the Son through the Holy Ghost.