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Revelation 9
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Chapter 9
The fifth trumpet
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Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star[*a] that had fallen from heaven on to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft leading down to the Abyss.[*b]
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When he unlocked the shaft of the Abyss, smoke poured up out of the Abyss like the smoke from a huge furnace[*c] so that the sun and the sky were darkened by it,
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and out of the smoke dropped locusts which were given the powers that scorpions have on the earth:
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they were forbidden to harm any fields or crops or trees and told only to attack any men who were without God’s seal on their foreheads.
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They were not to kill them, but to give them pain for five months, and the pain was to be the pain of a scorpion’s sting.
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When this happens, men will long for death and not find it anywhere ;[*d] they will want to die and death will evade them.
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To look at, these locusts were like horses armoured for battle[*e]; they had things that looked like gold crowns on their heads, and faces that seemed human,
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and hair like women’s hair, and teeth like lions’ teeth.
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They had body-armour like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings sounded like a great charge of horses and chariots into battle.
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Their tails were like scorpions’, with stings, and it was with them that they were able to injure people for five months.
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As their leader they had their emperor, the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, or Apollyon[*f] in Greek.
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That was the first of the troubles; there are still two more to come.
The sixth trumpet
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The sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice come out of the four horns of the golden altar in front of God.
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It spoke to the sixth angel with the trumpet, and said, ‘Release the four angels that are chained up at the great river Euphrates’.
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These four angels had been put there ready for this hour of this day of this month of this year, and now they were released to destroy a third of the human race.
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I learnt how many there were in their army: twice ten thousand times ten thousand mounted men.
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In my vision I saw the horses, and the riders with their breastplates of flame colour, hyacinth-blue and sulphur-yellow; the horses had lions’ heads, and fire, smoke and sulphur were coming out of their mouths.
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It was by these three plagues, the fire, the smoke and the sulphur coming out of their mouths, that the one third of the human race was killed.
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All the horses’ power was in their mouths and their tails: their tails were like snakes, and had heads that were able to wound.
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But the rest of the human race, who escaped these plagues, refused either to abandon the things they had made with their own hands[*g] – the idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood[*h] that can neither see nor hear nor move – or to stop worshipping devils.
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Nor did they give up their murdering, or witchcraft, or fornication or stealing.
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