Chapter 9
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9:1 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen out from heaven into the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss [] was given to it. 2 And he opened the pit of the abyss; and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened out of the smoke of the pit. 3 Then locusts came out of the smoke into the earth. Authority was given to them, like the authority of the scorpions of the earth, 4 but it was commanded them not to commit wrong against the grass of the earth nor any green things, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God upon their foreheads. 5 Yet they were not allowed to kill them, but only to torture them for five months; and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 And in those days, men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them. 7 And the appearance [x] of the locusts was like horses prepared into battle. Upon their heads were something resembling crowns, similar to gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 The locusts had hair like the hair of women; and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the noise of their wings was as the noise of many horse chariots driving into battle; 10 and they have tails with stings like scorpions. Their authority is inside their tails to act wickedly against men for five months. 11 They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon [Destroyer], and in the Greek his name is Apollyon [also, Destroyer]. 12 The first woe is past. Look and see, two more woes are still coming after this. 13 Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet; and I heard a voice out from the four horns of the golden altar in the presence of God, 14 speaking to the sixth angel with a trumpet, “Release the four angels who were bound upon the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels, prepared for the exact hour, day, month, and year, were loosed to kill a third of mankind; 16 and the number of the detachments of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand, for I heard the number of them. 17 Then, in my vision, I saw the horses and the ones sitting on them who had fiery breastplates like dark purple and sulphur. The heads of the horses were like heads of lions, and fire proceeded out of their mouths, along with smoke and sulphur. 18 By these three blows, a third of mankind was killed, out of the fire, smoke and sulphur bursting forth from their mouths. 14 For the authority of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails were like serpents with heads and with them they act wickedly. 20 But the rest of the men who were not killed by these blows, did not even change their minds out from the works of their hands, to stop worshipping the demons or their gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood idols which have no ability to see or hear, nor to walk around. 21 They did not change their minds out of their killings nor out of their drugs [y] nor out of their pornography nor out of their thefts. |
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