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R EVEL ATION 9
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He will lead them to springs of life-giving
water.
And God will wipe every tear from
their eyes.”
— promises —
from God
And they were shouting
with a great roar,
“Salvation comes from our
God who sits on the throne
and from the Lamb!”
R E V E L AT I O N 7:1 0
The Lamb Breaks the Seventh Seal
When the Lamb broke the seventh seal on
the scroll,* there was silence throughout
heaven for about half an hour. 2 I saw the seven
angels who stand before God, and they were
given seven trumpets.
3 Then another angel with a gold incense
burner came and stood at the altar. And a great
amount of incense was given to him to mix
with the prayers of God’s people as an offering on the gold altar before the throne. 4 The
smoke of the incense, mixed with the prayers
of God’s holy people, ascended up to God from
the altar where the angel had poured them out.
5 Then the angel filled the incense burner with
fire from the altar and threw it down upon the
earth; and thunder crashed, lightning flashed,
and there was a terrible earthquake.
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The First Four Trumpets
6 Then the seven angels with the seven trumpets
prepared to blow their mighty blasts.
7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and hail
and fire mixed with blood were thrown down
on the earth. One-third of the earth was set on
fire, one-third of the trees were burned, and all
the green grass was burned.
8 Then the second angel blew his trumpet,
and a great mountain of fire was thrown into the
sea. One-third of the water in the sea became
blood, 9 one-third of all things living in the sea
died, and one-third of all the ships on the sea
were destroyed.
10 Then the third angel blew his trumpet,
and a great star fell from the sky, burning like
a torch. It fell on one-third of the rivers and on
the springs of water. 11 The name of the star was
Bitterness.* It made one-third of the water bitter, and many people died from drinking the
bitter water.
8:1 Or book. 8:11 Greek Wormwood.
underworld; also in 9:11.
9:1 Or the abyss, or the
12 Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet,
and one-third of the sun was struck, and onethird of the moon, and one-third of the stars,
and they became dark. And one-third of the day
was dark, and also one-third of the night.
13 Then I looked, and I heard a single eagle
crying loudly as it flew through the air, “Terror,
terror, terror to all who belong to this world because of what will happen when the last three
angels blow their trumpets.”
The Fifth Trumpet Brings the First Terror
Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and
I saw a star that had fallen to earth from
the sky, and he was given the key to the shaft
of the bottomless pit.* 2 When he opened it,
smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from
the smoke.
3 Then locusts came from the smoke and
descended on the earth, and they were given
power to sting like scorpions. 4 They were told
not to harm the grass or plants or trees, but
only the people who did not have the seal of
God on their foreheads. 5 They were told not to
kill them but to torture them for five months
with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting. 6 In
those days people will seek death but will not
find it. They will long to die, but death will flee
from them!
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for
battle. They had what looked like gold crowns
on their heads, and their faces looked like
human faces. 8 They had hair like women’s hair
and teeth like the teeth of a lion. 9 They wore
armor made of iron, and their wings roared like
an army of chariots rushing into battle. 10 They
had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five
months they had the power to torment people.
11 Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit;
his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek,
Apollyon—the Destroyer.
12 The first terror is past, but look, two more
terrors are coming!
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The Sixth Trumpet Brings
the Second Terror
13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and
I heard a voice speaking from the four horns
of the gold altar that stands in the presence
of God. 14 And the voice said to the sixth angel
who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels
who are bound at the great Euphrates River.”
15 Then the four angels who had been prepared
for this hour and day and month and year were
turned loose to kill one-third of all the people
on earth. 16 I heard the size of their army, which
was 200 million mounted troops.
17 And in my vision, I saw the horses and the
riders sitting on them. The riders wore armor
that was fiery red and dark blue and yellow.