¹⁰ Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a huge star, blazing like a lamp, fell from the sky. It fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. ¹¹ The name of the star was Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood.^[a] Many of the people died from these waters because they had been made bitter.

¹² Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, as well as a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them became dark. And there was no light for a third of the day and likewise for the night.