Otkrivenje 9
Knijga O Kristu
Peta trublja: prva strahota
9 Zatrubi peti anđeo. Ugledam zvijezdu koja je pala s neba na zemlju. Dobila je ključ od zjala Bezdana.
2 Kad ga otvori, iz njega sukne dim kao iz goleme peći te zamrači Sunce i zrak.
3 Iz dima pak iziđu skakavci koji mogu bosti poput štipavaca.
4 Dobili su zapovijed da ne ude travi ni biljkama ni drveću, već da napadaju ljude koji nemaju Božji pečat na čelu.
5 Ne smiju ubijati ljude, nego ih samo mučiti pet mjeseci. Bol koju nanose slična je boli od uboda štipavca.
6 U te će dane ljudi tražiti smrt, ali ju neće naći, željet će umrijeti, ali će smrt bježati od njih!
7 Skakavci izgledaju poput konja spremnih za borbu. Na glavama im zlatni vijenci, a lica poput ljudskih.
8 Kosa im duga kao u žena, a zubi poput lavljih.
9 Imaju na sebi željezni oklop, a šum je njihovih krila poput štropota cijele vojske bojnih kola koja juri u boj.
10 Repovima mogu bosti poput štipavaca, žalcima mučiti ljude pet mjeseci.
11 Vođa im je anđeo Bezdana. Na hebrejskome se zove Abadon, a na grčkome Apolion - Uništavač.
12 Jedna strahota prolazi, ali za njom, evo, dolaze druge dvije!
Šesta trublja: druga strahota
13 Zatrubi šesti anđeo. Začujem glas iz rogova zlatnoga žrtvenika pred Bogom.
14 Govorio je šestom anđelu koji je imao trublju: 'Oslobodi onu četvoricu anđela svezanih na velikoj rijeci Eufratu!'
15 I odriješena su četiri anđela spremna za taj čas, dan, mjesec i godinu da pobiju trećinu svih ljudi na Zemlji.
16 Broj konjaničkih četa iznosio je dvjesto milijuna - čuo sam koliko ih ima.
17 U viđenju sam vidio konje i jahače na njima. Imali su na sebi oklope ognjene, plavetne i sumpornožute boje. Glave konja bile su poput lavljih, a iz usta su im sukljali oganj, dim i sumpor.
18 Trećina ljudi na Zemlji poginula je od tih triju pošasti - ognja, dima i sumpora što su konjima sukljali iz usta.
19 Snaga tih konja nije bila samo u ustima već i u repovima. Na njima su imali glave poput zmijskih, koje su udile ljudima.
20 Preostali ljudi, koji nisu poginuli od tih zala, ipak se nisu htjeli obratiti od zlih djela. I dalje su se klanjali zlodusima i idolima - načinjenima od zlata, srebra, mjedi, kamena ili drva - idolima koji ne vide, ne čuju i ne hodaju.
21 Nisu se pokajali za svoja ubojstva, ni vračanja, ni blud, ni krađe.
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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