¹⁷ Thus says the Lord, “^(A)By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike ^[a]the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and ^(B)it will be turned to blood. ^18 (C)The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will ^[b]become foul, and the Egyptians will ^[c](D)find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.”’” ¹⁹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and ^(E)stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their ^[d]streams, and over their pools, and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

²⁰ So Moses and Aaron did even as the Lord had commanded. And he lifted up ^[e](F)the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and ^(G)all the water that was in the Nile was turned to blood. ²¹ The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile ^[f]became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.

⁸ The second angel sounded, and something like a great ^(A)mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and ^(B)a third of the ^(C)sea became blood, ⁹ and ^(D)a third of the creatures which were in the sea ^[a]and had life, died; and a third of the ^(E)ships were destroyed.

¹⁰ The third angel sounded, and a great star ^(F)fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a ^(G)third of the rivers and on the ^(H)springs of waters. ¹¹ The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a ^(I)third of the waters became ^(J)wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

¹² The fourth angel sounded, and a ^(K)third of the ^(L)sun and a third of the ^(M)moon and a ^(N)third of the ^(O)stars were struck, so that a ^(P)third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a ^(Q)third of it, and the night in the same way.

¹³ Then I looked, and I heard ^[b]an eagle flying in ^(R)midheaven, saying with a loud voice, “^(S)Woe, woe, woe to ^(T)those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the ^(U)three angels who are about to sound!”

⁶ These have the power to ^(A)shut up the sky, so that rain will not fall during ^(B)the days of their prophesying; and they have power over the waters to ^(C)turn them into blood, and ^(D)to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.