Revelation 9
Amplified Bible
The Fifth Trumpet—the Bottomless Pit
9 Then the fifth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I saw a star (angelic being) that had fallen from heaven to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit (abyss) was given to him (the star-angel).(A) 2 He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke like the smoke of a great furnace flowed out of the pit; and the sun and the atmosphere were darkened by the smoke from the pit.(B) 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power [to hurt] was given to them, like the power which the earth’s scorpions have.(C) 4 They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but [to hurt] only the people who do not have the seal (mark of ownership, protection) of God on their foreheads.(D) 5 They were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment and cause them extreme pain for five months; and their torment was like the torment from a scorpion when it stings a man. 6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die [to escape the pain], but [will discover that] death evades them.(E)
7 The locusts resembled horses prepared and equipped for battle; and on their heads appeared to be [something like] golden crowns, and their faces resembled human faces.(F) 8 They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.(G) 9 They had breastplates (scales) like breastplates made of iron; and the [whirring] noise of their wings was like the [thunderous] noise of countless horse-drawn chariots charging [at full speed] into battle.(H) 10 They have tails like scorpions, and stingers; and in their tails is their power to hurt people for five months.(I) 11 They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss (the bottomless pit); in Hebrew his name is Abaddon (destruction), and in Greek he is called Apollyon (destroyer-king).
12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
The Sixth Trumpet—Army from the East
13 Then the sixth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I heard a solitary voice from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the [appointed] hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (two hundred million); I heard the number of them. 17 And this is how I saw the horses and their riders in my vision: the riders had breastplates [the color] of fire and of hyacinth (sapphire blue) and of brimstone (yellow); and the heads of the horses looked like the heads of lions; and from out of their mouths came fire and smoke and brimstone (burning sulfur). 18 A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that came from the mouths of the horses. 19 For the power of the horses [to do harm] is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and it is with them that they do harm.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, [a]did not repent even then of the works of their hands, so as to cease worshiping and paying homage to the demons and the idols of gold and of silver and of bronze and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;(J) 21 and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries (drugs, intoxications) nor of their [sexual] immorality nor of their thefts.
Footnotes
- Revelation 9:20 The wickedness of idolatry is so deep and deceptive that idolaters refuse to repent in spite of the overwhelming evidence of God’s displeasure with them (Ps 115:8; 135:18).
Uppenbarelseboken 9
nuBibeln (Swedish Contemporary Bible)
9 Sedan blåste den femte ängeln i sin trumpet, och då såg jag en stjärna som hade fallit från himlen ner på jorden. Stjärnan fick nyckeln till avgrunden, 2 och när den öppnade avgrunden vällde det fram rök som från en väldig ugn, och solen och luften förmörkades av röken från avgrunden.
3 Sedan kom det fram gräshoppor ur röken ut över jorden, och de fick en likadan makt som skorpionerna har på jorden. 4 Men de blev tillsagda att inte skada gräset på jorden eller några växter eller träd, utan bara de människor som inte var märkta med Guds sigill på sina pannor. 5 De fick inte döda dem, men de skulle plåga dem under fem månader, och plågan som de orsakade kändes som skorpionstick. 6 På den tiden kommer människor att söka döden, men de ska inte finna den. De ska längta efter att få dö, men döden ska fly ifrån dem.
7 Gräshopporna såg ut som hästar, rustade till strid. De hade något som såg ut som kransar av guld på sina huvuden, och deras ansikten liknade människors ansikten. 8 Deras hår var som kvinnohår, och deras tänder var som lejontänder. 9 De hade bröstsköldar av något som liknade järn, och dånet av deras vingar lät som när en armé med hästar och vagnar rusar iväg till strid. 10 De hade stjärtar och giftgaddar som skorpioner, och det var i stjärten de hade makten att plåga människorna under fem månader. 11 Deras kung som de har över sig är avgrundens ängel. På hebreiska heter han Abaddon och på grekiska Apollyon[a].
12 Det första veropet är över, men det ska komma två till.
13 Den sjätte ängeln blåste nu i sin trumpet, och då hörde jag en röst från de fyra hornen på altaret av guld inför Guds tron. 14 Rösten sa till den sjätte ängeln med trumpeten: ”Släpp lös de fyra änglar som är bundna vid den stora floden Eufrat.” 15 De fyra änglar som hade hållits beredda för just den stunden, den dagen, den månaden och det året, släpptes lösa för att döda en tredjedel av människorna. 16 De ledde en armé med 200 miljoner[b] ryttare; jag fick höra hur många de var.
17 I min syn såg jag hästarna och ryttarna, och de såg ut så här: Ryttarna bar eldröda och mörkblå och svavelgula bröstsköldar. Hästarnas huvuden liknade lejonhuvuden, och ur deras mun kom det eld och rök och svavel. 18 En tredjedel av alla människor dödades av dessa tre plågor, av elden, röken, och svavlet som kom från hästarnas munnar. 19 De hade sin kraft i sina munnar, men också i sina svansar, för deras svansar var som ormar med huvuden, som de kunde vålla skada med.
20 Men de övriga människor som överlevde dessa plågor omvände sig fortfarande inte från sina händers verk. De fortsatte att tillbe onda andar och avgudabilder av guld, silver, koppar, sten och trä, och som varken kan se eller höra eller gå. 21 De omvände sig inte från sitt mördande, sin magi och ockultism, sin sexuella lössläppthet och sina stölder.
Revelation 9
King James Version
9 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
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