³And another angel came and stood before the altar, having a golden censer: and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints, upon the golden altar which is before the throne of God.

⁴And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel.

⁵And the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar and cast it on the earth: and there were thunders and voices and lightnings and a great earthquake.

⁶And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound the trumpet.

⁷And the first angel sounded the trumpet: and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood: and it was cast on 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 the trumpet: and, as it were, 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 those creatures died which had life in the sea: and the third part of the ships was destroyed.

¹⁰And the third angel sounded the trumpet: and a great star fell from heaven, burning as it were a torch. And it fell on 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 men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

¹²And the fourth angel sounded the 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 was darkened. And the day did not shine for a third part of it: and the night in like manner.

¹³And I beheld: and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice: Woe, Woe, Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, by reason of the rest of the voices of the three angels, who are yet to sound the trumpet!

Chapter 9

And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth. And there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit.

²And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.

³And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

⁴And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree: but only the men who have not the sign of God on their foreheads.

⁵And it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but that they should torment them five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.

⁶And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.

⁷And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle. And on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men.

⁸And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as lions.

⁹And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.

¹⁰And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them

¹¹A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).

¹²One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.

¹³And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet: and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before the eyes of God,

¹⁴Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet: Loose the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates.

¹⁵And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men.

¹⁶And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty thousand times ten thousand. And I heard the number of them.

¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision. And they that sat on them had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone. And the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone.

¹⁸And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths.

¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents and have heads: and with them they hurt.

²⁰And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk:

²¹Neither did they penance from their murders nor from their sorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts.

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