9:1 Then 1 the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky 2 to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss. 3 9:2 He 4 opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it 5 like smoke from a giant furnace. The 6 sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft. 9:3 Then 7 out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power 8 like that of the scorpions of the earth. 9:4 They 9 were told 10 not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people 11 who did not have the seal of God on their 12 forehead. 9:5 The locusts 13 were not given permission 14 to kill 15 them, but only to torture 16 them 17 for five months, and their torture was like that 18 of a scorpion when it stings a person. 19 9:6 In 20 those days people 21 will seek death, but 22 will not be able to 23 find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
9:7 Now 24 the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On 25 their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, 26 and their faces looked like men’s 27 faces. 9:8 They 28 had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9:9 They had breastplates 29 like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. 9:10 They have 30 tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability 31 to injure people for five months is in their tails. 9:11 They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. 32
9:12 The first woe has passed, but 33 two woes are still coming after these things!
9:13 Then 34 the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the 35 horns on the golden altar that is before God, 9:14 saying to the sixth angel, the one holding 36 the trumpet, “Set free 37 the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!” 9:15 Then 38 the four angels who had been prepared for this 39 hour, day, 40 month, and year were set free to kill 41 a third of humanity. 9:16 The 42 number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; 43 I heard their number. 9:17 Now 44 this is what the horses and their riders 45 looked like in my 46 vision: The riders had breastplates that were fiery red, 47 dark blue, 48 and sulfurous 49 yellow in color. 50 The 51 heads of the horses looked like lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur 52 came out of their mouths. 9:18 A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, that is, 53 by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths. 9:19 For the power 54 of the horses resides 55 in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries. 9:20 The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made 56 of gold, silver, 57 bronze, stone, and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk about. 9:21 Furthermore, 58 they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, 59 of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.
10:1 Then 60 I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped 61 in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire. 62 10:2 He held 63 in his hand a little scroll that was open, and he put his right foot on the sea and his left on the land. 10:3 Then 64 he shouted in a loud voice like a lion roaring, and when he shouted, the seven thunders sounded their voices. 10:4 When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but 65 just then 66 I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down.” 10:5 Then 67 the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven 10:6 and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, and the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, “There will be no more delay! 68 10:7 But in the days 69 when the seventh angel is about to blow his trumpet, the mystery of God is completed, 70 just as he has 71 proclaimed to his servants 72 the prophets.” 10:8 Then 73 the voice I had heard from heaven began to speak 74 to me 75 again, 76 “Go and take the open 77 scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.” 10:9 So 78 I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He 79 said to me, “Take the scroll 80 and eat it. It 81 will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.” 10:10 So 82 I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it, and it did taste 83 as sweet as honey in my mouth, but 84 when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. 10:11 Then 85 they 86 told me: “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, 87 languages, and kings.”
11:1 Then 88 a measuring rod 89 like a staff was given to me, and I was told, 90 “Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there. 11:2 But 91 do not measure the outer courtyard 92 of the temple; leave it out, 93 because it has been given to the Gentiles, 94 and they will trample on the holy city 95 for forty-two months. 11:3 And I will grant my two witnesses authority 96 to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth. 11:4 (These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.) 97 11:5 If 98 anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths 99 and completely consumes 100 their enemies. If 101 anyone wants to harm them, they must be killed this way. 11:6 These two have the power 102 to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time 103 they are prophesying. They 104 have power 105 to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want. 11:7 When 106 they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer 107 them and kill them. 11:8 Their 108 corpses will lie in the street 109 of the great city that is symbolically 110 called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified. 11:9 For three and a half days those from every 111 people, tribe, 112 nation, and language will look at their corpses, because they will not permit them to be placed in a tomb. 113 11:10 And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them and celebrate, even sending gifts to each other, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth. 11:11 But 114 after three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and tremendous fear seized 115 those who were watching them. 11:12 Then 116 they 117 heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them: “Come up here!” So the two prophets 118 went up to heaven in a cloud while 119 their enemies stared at them. 11:13 Just then 120 a major earthquake took place and a tenth of the city collapsed; seven thousand people 121 were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
11:14 The second woe has come and gone; 122 the third is coming quickly.
11:15 Then 123 the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying:
“The kingdom of the world
has become the kingdom of our Lord
and of his Christ, 124
and he will reign for ever and ever.”
11:16 Then 125 the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground 126 and worshiped God 11:17 with these words: 127
“We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful, 128
the one who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and begun to reign. 129
11:18 The 130 nations 131 were enraged,
but 132 your wrath has come,
and the time has come for the dead to be judged,
and the time has come to give to your servants, 133
the prophets, their reward,
as well as to the saints
and to those who revere 134 your name, both small and great,
and the time has come 135 to destroy those who destroy 136 the earth.”
11:19 Then 137 the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, 138 crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm. 139
12:1 Then 140 a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars. 141 12:2 She 142 was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling 143 to give birth. 12:3 Then 144 another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon that had seven heads and ten horns, and on its heads were seven diadem crowns. 145 12:4 Now 146 the dragon’s 147 tail swept away a third of the stars in heaven and hurled them to the earth. Then 148 the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child as soon as it was born. 12:5 So 149 the woman gave birth to a son, a male child, 150 who is going to rule 151 over all the nations 152 with an iron rod. 153 Her 154 child was suddenly caught up to God and to his throne, 12:6 and she 155 fled into the wilderness 156 where a place had been prepared for her 157 by God, so she could be taken care of 158 for 1,260 days.
12:7 Then 159 war broke out in heaven: Michael 160 and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 12:8 But 161 the dragon was not strong enough to prevail, 162 so there was no longer any place left 163 in heaven for him and his angels. 164 12:9 So 165 that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him. 12:10 Then 166 I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,
“The salvation and the power
and the kingdom of our God,
and the ruling authority 167 of his Christ, 168 have now come,
because the accuser of our brothers and sisters, 169
the one who accuses them day and night 170 before our God,
has been thrown down.
12:11 But 171 they overcame him
by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony,
and they did not love their lives 172 so much that they were afraid to die.
12:12 Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them!
But 173 woe to the earth and the sea
because the devil has come down to you!
He 174 is filled with terrible anger,
for he knows that he only has a little time!”
12:13 Now 175 when the dragon realized 176 that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 12:14 But 177 the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, 178 to the place God 179 prepared for her, where she is taken care of – away from the presence of the serpent – for a time, times, and half a time. 180 12:15 Then 181 the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to 182 sweep her away by a flood, 12:16 but 183 the earth came to her rescue; 184 the ground opened up 185 and swallowed the river that the dragon had spewed from his mouth. 12:17 So 186 the dragon became enraged at the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her children, 187 those who keep 188 God’s commandments and hold to 189 the testimony about Jesus. 190 (12:18) And the dragon 191 stood 192 on the sand 193 of the seashore. 194