Apocalipsis 9
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9 El quinto ángel tocó la trompeta y cayó una estrella del cielo a la tierra y recibió la llave del pozo del abismo. 2 Al abrirlo, un humo negro como de un horno gigantesco se elevó y oscureció el sol y el aire. 3 Del humo brotaron langostas que descendieron sobre la tierra con poder para aguijonear como alacranes. 4 Se les había ordenado que no dañaran la hierba ni ninguna planta ni ningún árbol; en cambio, debían atacar a las personas que no tuvieran el sello de Dios en la frente. 5 No les estaba permitido matarlas, sino someterlas durante cinco meses a una agonía semejante al dolor del aguijonazo del alacrán. 6 En aquellos días, las personas tratarán de matarse, pero no se les concederá la muerte. Ansiarán morir, pero la muerte huirá de ellos.
7 Aquellas langostas parecían caballos preparados para la guerra. En la cabeza llevaban algo así como una corona de oro y tenían el rostro muy semejante al rostro humano. 8 Sus cabellos eran largos como de mujer, y sus dientes parecían dientes de leones. 9 Traían puestas corazas que parecían de hierro, y sus alas producían un estruendo semejante al de muchos carros que corren a la batalla tirados por caballos.
10 Como los alacranes, llevaban el aguijón en la cola, donde precisamente residía el poder que se les había dado para dañar a la gente durante cinco meses. 11 Y eran súbditos del ángel del abismo, cuyo nombre en hebreo es Abadón y en griego, Apolión.
12 Ya pasó uno de los horrores, pero todavía faltan dos.
13 El sexto ángel tocó la trompeta y escuché una voz que brotaba de entre los cuernos del altar de oro que estaba delante del trono de Dios.
14 «Desaten a los cuatro ángeles que están atados a la orilla del gran río Éufrates» —dijo la voz al sexto ángel.
15 Y aquellos ángeles, que estaban preparados precisamente para aquel año, mes, día y hora, quedaron en libertad de matar a la tercera parte de la humanidad. 16 Marcharían al frente de un ejército de doscientos millones de guerreros, según pude escuchar.
17 En visión, vi delante de mí aquella caballería. Los jinetes llevaban corazas de un color rojo fuego, si bien es cierto que algunas eran azul cielo y otras amarillas. Las cabezas de los caballos parecían cabezas de leones, y por el hocico echaban humo, fuego y azufre, 18 plagas que fueron matando la tercera parte de la humanidad.
19 Pero el poder mortal de aquellos caballos no radicaba solamente en el hocico. Sus colas parecían serpientes que con sus cabezas ocasionaban heridas mortales.
20 A pesar de todo eso, las personas que sobrevivieron a aquellas plagas no se arrepintieron de sus malas acciones y siguieron adorando a los demonios y a los ídolos de oro, plata, bronce, piedra y madera que no pueden ver ni oír ni caminar. 21 ¡Tampoco se arrepintieron de sus crímenes, hechicerías, inmoralidades sexuales y hurtos!
Revelation 9
New King James Version
Fifth Trumpet: The Locusts from the Bottomless Pit
9 Then the fifth angel sounded: (A)And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to (B)the [a]bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the (C)sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, (D)as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were commanded (E)not to harm (F)the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have (G)the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And [b]they were not given authority to kill them, (H)but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those days (I)men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
7 (J)The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. (K)On their heads were crowns of something like gold, (L)and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and (M)their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was (N)like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. 10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. 11 And they had as king over them (O)the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is [c]Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name [d]Apollyon.
12 (P)One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.
Sixth Trumpet: The Angels from the Euphrates
13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the (Q)golden altar which is before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound (R)at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a (S)third of mankind. 16 Now (T)the number of the army (U)of the horsemen was two hundred million; (V)I heard the number of them. 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; (W)and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. 19 For [e]their power is in their mouth and in their tails; (X)for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, (Y)did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship (Z)demons, (AA)and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. 21 And they did not repent of their murders (AB)or their [f]sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Footnotes
- Revelation 9:1 Lit. shaft of the abyss
- Revelation 9:5 The locusts
- Revelation 9:11 Lit. Destruction
- Revelation 9:11 Lit. Destroyer
- Revelation 9:19 NU, M the power of the horses
- Revelation 9:21 NU, M drugs
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