Revelation 9
9
1And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,
2and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.
3And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,
4and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but — the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,
5and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment [is] as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;
6and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.
7And the likenesses of the locusts [are] like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,
8and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as [those] of lions,
9and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings [is] as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;
10and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five months;
11and they have over them a king — the messenger of the abyss — a name [is] to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.
12The first woe did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.
13And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,
14saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, ‘Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;’
15and loosed were the four messengers, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men;
16and the number of the forces of the horsemen [is] two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them.
17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses [are] as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and brimstone;
18by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,
19for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure;
20and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,
21yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.
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Revelation 9
9
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 for the shaft to 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 to the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great#9:2 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#9:3 Or authority, also in v. 10 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 those 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 stings someone. 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 prepared for battle.#Jl 2:4–5 Something like golden crowns was on their heads; their faces were like human 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 many chariots with horses rushing into battle; 10and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months. 11They had as their king#9:11 Or as king over them the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon,#9:11 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.#9:11 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#9:13 Other mss omit four horns of the golden 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 two hundred million;#9:16 Other mss read a hundred million I heard their number. 17This is how I saw the horses and their riders in the vision: They had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, 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, because their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads that inflict injury.
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 cannot 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, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
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