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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1Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw a star which had fallen down to the earth, and it was given the key to the abyss.#9.1 abyss: The place in the depths of the earth where the demons were imprisoned until their final punishment. 2#Gen 19.28The star opened the abyss, and smoke poured out of it, like the smoke from a large furnace; the sunlight and the air were darkened by the smoke from the abyss. 3#Ex 10.12–15Locusts came down out of the smoke upon the earth, and they were given the same kind of power that scorpions have. 4#Ezek 9.4They were told not to harm the grass or the trees or any other plant; they could harm only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads. 5The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting. 6#Job 3.21; Jer 8.3During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.
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Joel 2.4
The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces. 8#Joel 1.6Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9#Joel 2.5Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breastplates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle. 10They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months. 11They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning “The Destroyer”).
12The first horror is over; after this there are still two more horrors to come.
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Ex 30.1–3
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice coming from the four corners of the gold altar standing before God. 14The voice said to the sixth angel, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!” 15The four angels were released; for this very hour of this very day of this very month and year they had been kept ready to kill a third of all humanity. 16I was told the number of the mounted troops: it was 200,000,000. 17And in my vision I saw the horses and their riders: they had breastplates red as fire, blue as sapphire, and yellow as sulphur. The horses' heads were like lions' heads, and from their mouths came out fire, smoke, and sulphur. 18A third of humanity was killed by those three plagues: the fire, the smoke, and the sulphur coming out of the horses' mouths. 19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails are like snakes with heads, and they use them to hurt people.
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Ps 115.4–7; 135.15–17; Dan 5.23 The rest of humanity, all those who had not been killed by these plagues, did not turn away from what they themselves had made. They did not stop worshipping demons, nor the idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk. 21Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic, their sexual immorality, or their stealing.
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