^8:8Then¹⁷ the second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain of burning fire was thrown into the sea. A¹⁸ third of the sea became blood, ^8:9and a third of the creatures¹⁹ living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed.²⁰

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Footnotes

17 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
18 Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
19 Or “a third of the living creatures in the sea”; Grk “the third of the creatures which were in the sea, the ones having life.”
20 On the term translated “completely destroyed,” L&N 20.40 states, “to cause the complete destruction of someone or something—‘to destroy utterly.’ τὸ τρίτον τῶν πλοίων διεφθάρησαν ‘a third of the ships were completely destroyed’ Re 8:9.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain ablaze with fire was hurled into the sea. So a third of the sea became blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

NLTNew Living Translation

Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the sea. One-third of the water in the sea became blood, one-third of all things living in the sea died, and one-third of all the ships on the sea were destroyed.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And the second angel blew the trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood, and a third of the creatures in the sea—the ones which had life—died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

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