Translation
and I saw the holy city,
the new JERUSALEM,
Go to footnote numbercoming down out of heaven from GOD,
having been prepared the way a bride
is adorned for her husband.
Go to footnote numberParaphrase
and I saw the gathering of holy people, those that really do have PEACEFUL FOUNDATIONS,
whose origin is THE CREATOR AND OWNER OF ALL THINGS,
and who have kept themselves pure the way a bride must keep herself pure for her wedding day and is thus acceptable and desirable to her husband.
Footnotes
1: "new Jerusalem"
Here the city is described as a bride. Starting in verse 9 of this same chapter the bride is described as a city. More will be said about it after verse 9, but the reader should make note that the images of a bride and a city are both referring to the same thing—the faithful people of God.
2: “Adorned for her husband”
Even though many people focus on the outward appearance, it is the inner qualities, such as purity of heart, that make us acceptable and desirable to God.
ARE THE CITY AND THE BRIDE DESCRIBING DIFFERENT THINGS OR THE SAME THING?
More will be said after Revelation 21:10 of this chapter about the connection between the Bride and the holy city of Jerusalem. At this point, suffice it to say that I am convinced that both pictures are ways of describing the same thing—the true followers of God.