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Apocalipse 9
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A quinta trombeta

9 E o quinto anjo tocou a trombeta, e vi uma estrela que do céu caiu na terra; e foi-lhe dada a chave do poço do abismo. 2 E abriu o poço do abismo, e subiu fumaça do poço como a fumaça de uma grande fornalha e, com a fumaça do poço, escureceu-se o sol e o ar. 3 E da fumaça vieram gafanhotos sobre a terra; e foi-lhes dado poder como o poder que têm os escorpiões da terra. 4 E foi-lhes dito que não fizessem dano à erva da terra, nem a verdura alguma, nem a árvore alguma, mas somente aos homens que não têm na testa o sinal de Deus. 5 E foi-lhes permitido, não que os matassem, mas que por cinco meses os atormentassem; e o seu tormento era semelhante ao tormento do escorpião quando fere o homem. 6 E naqueles dias os homens buscarão a morte e não a acharão; e desejarão morrer, e a morte fugirá deles.

7 E o aspecto dos gafanhotos era semelhante ao de cavalos aparelhados para a guerra; e sobre a sua cabeça havia umas como coroas semelhantes ao ouro; e o seu rosto era como rosto de homem. 8 E tinham cabelos como cabelos de mulher, e os seus dentes eram como de leão. 9 E tinham couraças como couraças de ferro; e o ruído das suas asas era como o ruído de carros, quando muitos cavalos correm ao combate. 10 E tinham cauda semelhante à dos escorpiões e aguilhão na cauda; e o seu poder era para danificar os homens por cinco meses. 11 E tinham sobre si rei, o anjo do abismo; em hebreu era o seu nome Abadom, e em grego, Apoliom. 12 Passado é já um ai; eis que depois disso vêm ainda dois ais.

A sexta trombeta

13 E tocou o sexto anjo a trombeta, e ouvi uma voz que vinha das quatro pontas do altar de ouro que estava diante de Deus, 14 a qual dizia ao sexto anjo, que tinha a trombeta: Solta os quatro anjos que estão presos junto ao grande rio Eufrates. 15 E foram soltos os quatro anjos que estavam preparados para a hora, e dia, e mês, e ano, a fim de matarem a terça parte dos homens. 16 E o número dos exércitos dos cavaleiros era de duzentos milhões; e ouvi o número deles. 17 E assim vi os cavalos nesta visão; e os que sobre eles cavalgavam tinham couraças de fogo, e de jacinto, e de enxofre; e a cabeça dos cavalos era como cabeça de leão; e de sua boca saía fogo, e fumaça, e enxofre. 18 Por estas três pragas foi morta a terça parte dos homens, isto é, pelo fogo, pela fumaça e pelo enxofre, que saíam da sua boca. 19 Porque o poder dos cavalos está na sua boca e na sua cauda, porquanto a sua cauda é semelhante a serpentes e tem cabeça, e com ela danificam.

20 E os outros homens, que não foram mortos por estas pragas, não se arrependeram das obras de suas mãos, para não adorarem os demônios e os ídolos de ouro, e de prata, e de bronze, e de pedra, e de madeira, que nem podem ver, nem ouvir, nem andar. 21 E não se arrependeram dos seus homicídios, nem das suas feitiçarias, nem da sua prostituição, nem das suas ladroíces.

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Revelation 9
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Chapter 9

The Fifth Trumpet.[a] 1 Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star[b] that had fallen from the sky to the earth. It was given the key for the passage to the abyss. 2 It opened the passage to the abyss,(A) and smoke came up out of the passage like smoke from a huge furnace. The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the passage.(B) 3 Locusts came out of the smoke onto the land, and they were given the same power as scorpions[c] of the earth.(C) 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or any tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torment them for five months;[d] the torment they inflicted was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person. 6 During that time these people will seek death but will not find it, and they will long to die but death will escape them.(D)

7 [e]The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,(E) 8 and they had hair like women’s hair. Their teeth were like lions’ teeth,(F) 9 and they had chests like iron breastplates. The sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots racing into battle. 10 They had tails like scorpions, with stingers; with their tails they had power to harm people for five months. 11 They had as their king the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon[f] and in Greek Apollyon.

12 The first woe has passed, but there are two more to come.

The Sixth Trumpet.[g] 13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the [four][h] horns of the gold altar before God,(G) 14 telling the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels[i] who are bound at the banks of the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels were released, who were prepared for this hour, day, month, and year to kill a third of the human race. 16 The number of cavalry troops was two hundred million; I heard their number. 17 Now in my vision this is how I saw the horses and their riders. They wore red, blue, and yellow breastplates,[j] and the horses’ heads were like heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.(H) 18 By these three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that came out of their mouths a third of the human race was killed. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like snakes, with heads that inflict harm.

20 The rest of the human race, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands,[k] to give up the worship of demons and idols made from gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.(I) 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic potions, their unchastity, or their robberies.

Footnotes

  1. 9:1–12 The fifth trumpet heralds a woe containing elements from the eighth and ninth plagues of Egypt (Ex 10:12–15, 21–23) but specifically reminiscent of the invasion of locusts in Jl 1:4–2:10.
  2. 9:1 A star: late Judaism represented fallen powers as stars (Is 14:12–15; Lk 10:18; Jude 13), but a comparison with Rev 1:20 and Rev 20:1 suggests that here it means an angel. The passage to the abyss: referring to Sheol, the netherworld, where Satan and the fallen angels are kept for a thousand years, to be cast afterwards into the pool of fire; cf. Rev 20:7–10. The abyss was conceived of as a vast subterranean cavern full of fire. Its only link with the earth was a kind of passage or mine shaft, which was kept locked.
  3. 9:3 Scorpions: their poisonous sting was proverbial; Ez 2:6; Lk 11:12.
  4. 9:5 For five months: more or less corresponding to the life-span of locusts.
  5. 9:7–10 Eight characteristics are listed to show the eschatological and diabolical nature of these locusts.
  6. 9:11 Abaddon: Hebrew (more precisely, Aramaic) for destruction or ruin. Apollyon: Greek for the “Destroyer.”
  7. 9:13–21 The sixth trumpet heralds a woe representing another diabolical attack symbolized by an invasion by the Parthians living east of the Euphrates; see note on Rev 6:2. At the appointed time (Rev 9:15), the frightful horses act as God’s agents of judgment. The imaginative details are not to be taken literally; see Introduction and the note on Rev 6:12–14.
  8. 9:13 [Four]: many Greek manuscripts and versions omit the word. The horns were situated at the four corners of the altar (Ex 27:2; 30:2–3); see note on Rev 8:3.
  9. 9:14–15 The four angels: they are symbolic of the destructive activity that will be extended throughout the universe.
  10. 9:17 Blue: literally, “hyacinth-colored.” Yellow: literally, “sulfurous.”
  11. 9:20 The works of their hands: i.e., the gods their hands had made.
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