Revelation 8–9

Chapter 8

The Seventh Seal—the Trumpets

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

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

^3aAnother angel came and stood at the ^baltar, holding a ^cgolden censer; and much ^dincense was given to him, so that he might ¹add it to the prayers of all the ²saints on the ^egolden altar which was before the throne.

⁴And ^athe smoke of the incense, ¹with the prayers of the ²saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.

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.

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

⁷The 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 a third of the ^ctrees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

⁸The 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 ¹and had life, died; and a third of the ^bships were destroyed.

¹⁰The 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.

¹¹The 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.

¹²The fourth angel sounded, and a ^athird of the ^bsun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third 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

The Fifth Trumpet—the Bottomless Pit

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

²He opened the ¹bottomless pit, 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.

⁴They 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 not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

⁷The ^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.

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

⁹They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the ^asound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.

¹⁰They 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.

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

The Sixth Trumpet—Army from the East

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 are bound at the ^bgreat river Euphrates.”

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

¹⁶The 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 sat 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 proceed fire and smoke and brimstone.

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

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

²⁰The 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 ^cimmorality nor of their thefts.