Revelation 9
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The Fifth Trumpet
1The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth.#Is 14:12; Lk 10:18; Rv 8:10 The key for the shaft to the abyss#Lk 8:31; Rm 10:7; Rv 9:11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1–3 was given to him. 2He opened the shaft to the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great#9:2 Other mss omit great furnace#Gn 19:28; Ex 19:18 so that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.#Jl 2:2,10 3Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth,#Ex 10:1–20; Dt 28:42; 1Kg 8:37; Ps 78:46 and power#9:3 Or authority, also in v. 10 was given to them#Mt 10:1; 28:18; Rv 6:8 like the power that scorpions have on the earth.#Dt 8:15; Ezk 2:6; Lk 10:19 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree,#Rv 6:6; 7:3 but only those people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads.#Rv 7:3 5They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it stings someone. 6In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.#Jb 3:20–22; Rv 6:16
7The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle.#Jl 2:4–5 Something like golden crowns was on their heads; their faces were like human faces; 8they had hair like women’s hair; their teeth were like lions’ teeth;#Jl 1:6 9they had chests like iron breastplates; the sound of their wings was like the sound of many chariots with horses rushing into battle; 10and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months. 11They had as their king#9:11 Or as king over them the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon,#9:11 Or Destruction#Jb 26:6; 28:22; 31:12; Ps 88:11; Pr 15:11; 27:20 and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.#9:11 Or Destroyer
12The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this.#Rv 8:13; 11:14
The Sixth Trumpet
13The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four#9:13 Other mss omit four horns of the golden altar#Ex 39:38; 40:5 that is before God, I heard a voice 14say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels#Rv 7:1–2 bound at the great river Euphrates.”#Rv 16:12 15So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year#Gn 7:11; 2Kg 25:1; Jr 39:2; 52:4,12,31 were released to kill a third#Rv 8:7–12 of the human race. 16The number of mounted troops was two hundred million;#9:16 Other mss read a hundred million I heard their number. 17This is how I saw the horses and their riders in the vision: They had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and from their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.#Gn 19:24; Dt 29:23; Jb 18:15; Ps 11:6; Is 34:9; Lk 17:29; Rv 14:10; 19:20; 20:10; 21:8 18A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues — by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths. 19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads that inflict injury.
20The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands#1Kg 13:33; 2Ch 34:25; Ps 7:12; Jr 1:16; Rv 16:9,11 to stop worshiping demons#1Co 10:20 and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood,#Dt 29:17; Dn 2:32,35,45; Hab 2:19; Ac 17:29 which cannot see, hear, or walk.#Dt 4:28; Ps 115:4–7; 135:15–17; Dn 5:23 21And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
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Revelation 9
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1Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fall from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the deep hole that leads to the bottomless pit. 2Then it opened up the hole that leads to the bottomless pit, and smoke came up from the hole like smoke from a big furnace. Then the sun and sky became dark because of the smoke from the hole. 3Then locusts came down to the earth out of the smoke, and they were given the power to sting like scorpions. 4They were told not to harm the grass on the earth or any plant or tree. They could harm only the people who did not have the sign of God on their foreheads. 5These locusts were not given the power to kill anyone, but to cause pain to the people for five months. And the pain they felt was like the pain a scorpion gives when it stings someone. 6During those days people will look for a way to die, but they will not find it. They will want to die, but death will run away from them.
7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore what looked like crowns of gold, and their faces looked like human faces. 8Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9Their chests looked like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horses and chariots hurrying into battle. 10The locusts had tails with stingers like scorpions, and in their tails was their power to hurt people for five months. 11The locusts had a king who was the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in the Hebrew language is Abaddon and in the Greek language is Apollyon.
12The first trouble is past; there are still two other troubles that will come.
13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God. 14The voice said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are tied at the great river Euphrates.” 15And they let loose the four angels who had been kept ready for this hour and day and month and year so they could kill a third of all people on the earth. 16I heard how many troops on horses were in their army—two hundred million.
17The horses and their riders I saw in the vision looked like this: They had breastplates that were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow like sulfur. The heads of the horses looked like heads of lions, with fire, smoke, and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 18A third of all the people on earth were killed by these three terrible disasters coming out of the horses’ mouths: the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur. 19The horses’ power was in their mouths and in their tails; their tails were like snakes with heads, and with them they hurt people.
20The other people who were not killed by these terrible disasters still did not change their hearts and turn away from what they had made with their own hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see or hear or walk. 21These people did not change their hearts and turn away from murder or evil magic, from their sexual sins or stealing.
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