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¹And when he openeth the seventh seal, there came silence in the heaven about half-an-hour, ²and I saw the seven messengers who before God have stood, and there were given to them seven trumpets, ³and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that is before the throne, ⁴and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the messenger, before God; ⁵and the messenger took the censer, and did fill it out of the fire of the altar, and did cast it to the earth, and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake. ⁶And the seven messengers who are having the seven trumpets did prepare themselves that they may sound.

⁷And the first messenger did sound, and there came hail and fire, mingled with blood, and it was cast to the land, and the third of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up. ⁸And the second messenger did sound, and as it were a great mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third of the sea became blood, ⁹and die did the third of the creatures that are in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed. ¹⁰And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters, ¹¹and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters doth become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter. ¹²And the fourth messenger did sound, and smitten was the third of the sun, and the third of the moon, and the third of the stars, that darkened may be the third of them, and that the day may not shine—the third of it, and the night in like manner. ¹³And I saw, and I heard one messenger, flying in the mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, ‘Woe, woe, woe, to those dwelling upon the land from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound.’

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¹And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss, ²and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit. ³And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority, ⁴and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but—the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads, ⁵and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment is as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man; ⁶and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them. ⁷And the likenesses of the locusts are like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men, ⁸and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as those of lions, ⁹and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings is as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle; ¹⁰and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority is to injure men five months; ¹¹and they have over them a king—the messenger of the abyss—a name is to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon. ¹²The first woe did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.

¹³And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God, ¹⁴saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, ‘Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;’ ¹⁵and loosed were the four messengers, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men; ¹⁶and the number of the forces of the horsemen is two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them. ¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses are as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and brimstone; ¹⁸by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth, ¹⁹for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure; ²⁰and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk, ²¹yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

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