Revelation 9
9
Fifth Trumpet: The Emergence of the Locusts from the Bottomless Pit
1 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star which had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit was given to him. 2 And he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke went up from the shaft like the smoke from a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft. 3 And out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, like the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 And it was said to them that they must not harm the grass of the earth, nor any green plant, nor any tree, except those men* who do not have the seal of God on their* foreheads. 5 And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented for five months, and their torment is like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.* 6 And in those days, men will seek death but will never find it; and they will long to die but death will flee from them.
7 And the form* of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like men’s faces, 8 and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like those* of lions, 9 and they had breastplates like breastplates* of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses swiftly advancing into battle. 10 And they have tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails is their power to harm men for five months. 11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
12 The first woe has passed; behold, two further woes are coming after these things.
Sixth Trumpet: The Release of the Angels Bound at the Euphrates
13 Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four* horns of the golden altar that is before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel, the one who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they might kill a third of mankind. 16 And the number of the armies of the cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand;* I heard the number of them. 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, who had fiery red and deep blue and sulphurous yellow breastplates, and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and sulphur. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur issuing from their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they bring injury.
20 And the remainder of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship the demons and the idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which are neither able to see nor to hear nor to walk; 21 and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their magical practices, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
Notes
4 Or people, as the term may be understood in a generic sense. The same also applies in vv. 6,10
5 Or person, as the term may be understood in a generic sense
7 Greek forms
8 The demonstrative pronoun those is contextually supplied to the text for clarification
9 Three ancient Greek manuscripts omit the simile like breastplates
13 Some ancient manuscripts omit the word four
16 Or two hundred million
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