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 to the shaft of 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 of the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great # 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 # Or authority 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 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 strikes a man. 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 equipped for battle. # Jl 2:4-5 Something like gold crowns was on their heads; their faces were like men’s 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 chariots with many horses rushing into battle; 10and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power # Or authority to harm people for five months. 11They had as their king # Or as king over them the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, # 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. # 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 # Other mss omit four horns of the gold 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 200 million; # Other mss read 100 million I heard their number. 17This is how I saw the horses in my vision: The horsemen had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, 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, for their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads, and they inflict injury with them.
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 are not able to 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, # Or magic potions, or drugs ; Gk pharmakon their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
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Revelation 9
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1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. 2He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a#9:2 TR adds “great” burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. 3Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads. 5They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person. 6In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces. 8They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions. 9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of many chariots and horses rushing to war. 10They have tails like those of scorpions, with stingers. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months. 11They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”,#9:11 “Abaddon” is a Hebrew word that means “ruin”, “destruction”, or “the place of destruction” but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.#9:11 “Apollyon” means “Destroyer”.
12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”
15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind. 16The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million.#9:16 literally, “ten thousands of ten thousands” I heard the number of them. 17Thus I saw the horses in the vision and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulphur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulphur. 18By these three plagues, one third of mankind was killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulphur, which proceeded out of their mouths. 19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they harm.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can’t see, hear, or walk. 21They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries,#9:21 The word for “sorceries” (pharmakeia) also implies the use of potions, poisons, and drugs their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
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