Revelation 8–9

Chapter 8

¹And when it opened the seventh seal, there was silence in the heaven about half an hour. ²And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. ³And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, that he might give efficacy to the prayers of all saints at the golden altar which was before the throne. ⁴And the smoke of the incense went up with the prayers of the saints, out of the hand of the angel before God. ⁵And the angel took the censer, and filled it from the fire of the altar, and cast it on the earth: and there were voices, and thunders and lightnings, and an earthquake. ⁶And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves that they might sound with their trumpets.

⁷And the first sounded his trumpet: and there was hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth; and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. ⁸And the second angel sounded his trumpet: and as a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood; ⁹and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea which had life died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. ¹⁰And the third angel sounded his trumpet: and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters. ¹¹And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and the third part of the waters became wormwood, and many of the men died of the waters because they were made bitter. ¹²And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them should be darkened, and that the day should not appear for the third part of it, and the night the same. ¹³And I saw, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to them that dwell upon the earth, for the remaining voices of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound.

Chapter 9

¹And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet: and I saw a star out of the heaven fallen to the earth; and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss. ²And it opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit. ³And out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have power; ⁴and it was said to them, that they should not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but the men who have not the seal of God on their foreheads: ⁵and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. ⁶And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them. ⁷And the likenesses of the locusts were like to horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men; ⁸and they had hair as women’s hair, and their teeth were as of lions, ⁹and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to war; ¹⁰and they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and their power was in their tails to hurt men five months. ¹¹They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in Greek he has for name Apollyon. ¹²The first woe has passed. Behold, there come yet two woes after these things.

¹³And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet: and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound at the great river Euphrates. ¹⁵And the four angels were loosed, who are prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they might slay the third part of men; ¹⁶and the number of the hosts of horse was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number. ¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those that sat upon them, having breastplates of fire and jacinth and brimstone; and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions, and out of their mouths goes out fire and smoke and brimstone. ¹⁸By these three plagues were the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which goes out of their mouths. ¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails: for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they injure. ²⁰And the rest of men who were not killed with these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the golden and silver and brazen and stone and wooden idols, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. ²¹And they repented not of their murders, nor of their witchcrafts, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.