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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Tormenting Locusts from the Abyss
1 And the fifth angel blew the trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to him. 2And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like smoke from a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft. 3And out of the smoke locusts came to the earth, and power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power. 4And it was told to them that they should not damage the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, except those people who do not have the seal of God on their#*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun foreheads. 5And it was granted to them that they should not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months, and their torment is like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person. 6And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.
7And the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads were something like crowns similar in appearance to gold, and their faces were like men’s faces, 8and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions, 9and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots#Literally “chariots of horses” running into battle. 10And they have tails similar in appearance to scorpions, and stings, and their power to injure people for five months is in their tails. 11They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name#Literally “the name to him” in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
12The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
A Third of Humanity Killed by Plagues
13And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns#Some manuscripts have “four horns” of the golden altar that is before God 14saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who have been bound at the great river Euphrates!” 15And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity. 16And the number of the troops of the cavalry was two hundred million#Literally “twenty thousands of ten thousands”; I heard the number of them. 17And in this way I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them, who had fiery red and hyacinth-colored and sulphurous yellow breastplates, and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and sulphur. 18By these three plagues a third of humanity was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur that came out of their mouths. 19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are similar in appearance to snakes, having heads, and with them they cause injury.#Literally “they injure”
20And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, in order not to worship#Literally “so that they did not worship” the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk, 21and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.
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