Revelation 8–9

CHAPTER 8

The Seventh Seal

¹When He opened the ^aseventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

²Then I saw ^athe seven angels who stand before God, and seven ^btrumpets were given to them.

^3aAnd another angel came and stood at the ^baltar, having a ^cgolden censer; and much ^dincense was given to him, so that he might ¹add it to the ^eprayers of all the saints on the ^fgolden altar which was before the throne.

⁴And ^athe smoke of the incense went up ¹with the prayers of the saints, out of the angel’s hand, before God.

⁵Then the angel ¹took the censer and ^afilled it with the fire of the altar, and ^bthrew it to the earth; and there followed ^cpeals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an ^dearthquake.

The Seven Trumpets

^6aAnd the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

⁷And the first sounded, and there came ^ahail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and ^ba third of the earth was burned up, and ^ca third of the ^dtrees were burned up, and all the green ^egrass was burned up.

⁸And the second angel sounded, and something like a great ^amountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and ^ba third of the ^csea became blood,

⁹and ^aa third of the creatures which were in the sea—those which had life—died; and a third of the ^bships were destroyed.

¹⁰And the third angel sounded, and a great star ^afell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a ^bthird of the rivers and on the ^csprings of waters.

¹¹And the name of the star is called Wormwood; and a ^athird of the waters became ^bwormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

¹²And the fourth angel sounded, and a ^athird of the ^bsun and a third of the ^cmoon and a ^dthird of the ^estars were struck, so that a ^fthird of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a ^gthird of it, and the night in the same way.

¹³Then I looked, and I heard ¹an eagle flying in ^amidheaven, saying with a loud voice, “^bWoe, woe, woe to ^cthose who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the ^dthree angels who are about to sound!”

CHAPTER 9

¹Then the ^afifth angel sounded. Then I saw a ^bstar from heaven which had fallen to the earth, and the ^ckey of the ^dpit of the abyss was given to him.

²And he opened the pit of the abyss and ^asmoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace, and ^bthe sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

³Then out of the smoke came ^alocusts ¹upon the earth, and power was given them, as the ^bscorpions of the earth have power.

⁴And they were told not to ^ahurt the ^bgrass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the ^cseal of God on their foreheads.

⁵And ¹they were not permitted to kill ²anyone, but to torment for ^afive months, and their torment was like the torment of a ^bscorpion when it ³stings a man.

⁶And in those days ^amen will seek death and will never find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

⁷And the ^1aappearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. And on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

⁸And they had hair like the hair of women, and their ^ateeth were like the teeth of lions.

⁹And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the ^asound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses running to battle.

¹⁰And they have tails like ^ascorpions, and stings; and in their ^btails is their power to hurt men for ^cfive months.

¹¹They have as king over them, the angel of the ^aabyss. His name in ^bHebrew is ^1cAbaddon, and in the Greek he has the name ²Apollyon.

^12aOne woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

¹³Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard ¹a voice from the ²four ^ahorns of the ^bgolden altar which is before God,

¹⁴one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the ^afour angels who have been bound at the ^bgreat river Euphrates.”

¹⁵And the four angels were ^areleased, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill a ^bthird of ¹mankind.

¹⁶And the number of the armies of the horsemen was ^atwo hundred million; ^bI heard the number of them.

¹⁷And ¹this is how I saw ^ain the vision the horses and those who sit on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of ^2bbrimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^cout of their mouths come fire and smoke and ^3dbrimstone.

¹⁸A ^athird of ¹mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the ^bfire and the smoke and the ²brimstone which came out of their mouths.

¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do harm.

²⁰And the rest of ¹mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^adid not repent of ^bthe works of their hands, so as not to ^cworship demons, and ^dthe idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

²¹And they ^adid not repent of their murders nor of their ^bsorceries nor of their ^csexual immorality nor of their thefts.