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Revelation 9 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

The Fifth Trumpet--the Bottomless Pit

Rev 9:1

Rev 9:1Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the [fn]bottomless pit was given to him.

Rev 9:2

Rev 9:2He opened the [fn]bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

Rev 9:3

Rev 9:3Then out of the smoke came locusts [fn]upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Rev 9:4

Rev 9:4They were told not to hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

Rev 9:5

Rev 9:5And [fn]they were not permitted to kill [fn]anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it [fn]stings a man.

Rev 9:6

Rev 9:6And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

Rev 9:7

Rev 9:7The [fn]appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

Rev 9:8

Rev 9:8They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

Rev 9:9

Rev 9:9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.

Rev 9:10

Rev 9:10They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months.

Rev 9:11

Rev 9:11They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is [fn]Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name [fn]Apollyon.

Rev 9:12

Rev 9:12The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

The Sixth Trumpet--Army from the East

Rev 9:13

Rev 9:13Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard [fn]a voice from the [fn]four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Rev 9:14

Rev 9:14one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

Rev 9:15

Rev 9:15And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of [fn]mankind.

Rev 9:16

Rev 9:16The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them.

Rev 9:17

Rev 9:17And [fn]this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of [fn]brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and [fn]brimstone.

Rev 9:18

Rev 9:18A third of [fn]mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the [fn]brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

Rev 9:19

Rev 9:19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

Rev 9:20

Rev 9:20The rest of [fn]mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

Rev 9:21

Rev 9:21and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.
See the NASB95 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: shaft of the abyss
V 1, note 1
Literally: into
Literally: it was given to them
Literally: them
Literally: strikes
Literally: likenesses
I.e. destruction
I.e. destroyer
Literally: one voice
Two early mss do not contain four
Gr anthropoi
Literally: thus I saw
I.e. burning sulphur
Gr anthropoi
I.e. burning sulphur
Gr anthropoi
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