Revelation 8
8
The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer
1 And when He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for approximately half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and to him was given much incense, so that he might offer the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense ascended with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God. 5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire from the altar, and threw it down on the earth; and there were peals of thunder and voices, and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
The Trumpets
6 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.
First Trumpet: The Burning of Vegetation
7 And the first* sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown down on the earth, and a third of the earth was burned up,* and a third of the trees were burned up,* and all the green grass was burned up.*
Second Trumpet: The Sea Struck
8 And the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something* like a great mountain blazing with fire was thrown down into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood, 9 and a third of the creatures in the sea, which had life, died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
Third Trumpet: The Falling of a Great Star from Heaven
10 And the third angel sounded his trumpet, and there fell from heaven a great star, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of waters.* 11 And the name of the star was called Wormwood, and a third of the waters turned into wormwood, and many men* died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
Fourth Trumpet: The Striking of the Sun, Moon, and Stars
12 And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them might be darkened, and a third of the day might not shine, and a third of the night in the same way.
13 Then I looked, and I heard one eagle* flying through the midst of the air, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, from the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to sound!”
Notes
7 Some ancient manuscripts insert angel at this point
8 The word something is supplied to the text contextually, in order to provide clarification
10 One ancient Greek manuscript omits the coordinate prepositional phrase and on the fountains of waters
11 Or people, as the term may be understood in a generic sense
13 Some ancient manuscripts replace eagle with angel, likely to harmonise the text with 14:6
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Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
