| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. | 1Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss. |
| 2He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. | 2He opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it like smoke from a giant furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft. |
| 3Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. | 3Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. |
| 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. | 4They were told not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their forehead. |
| 5They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. | 5The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person. |
| 6And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. | 6In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them. |
| 7In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, | 7Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men's faces. |
| 8their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; | 8They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. |
| 9they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. | 9They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. |
| 10They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. | 10They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails. |
| 11They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. | 11They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. |
| 12The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come. | 12The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things! |
| 13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, | 13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God, |
| 14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” | 14saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, "Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" |
| 15So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. | 15Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity. |
| 16The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. | 16The number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; I heard their number. |
| 17And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. | 17Now this is what the horses and their riders looked like in my vision: The riders had breastplates that were fiery red, dark blue, and sulfurous yellow in color. The heads of the horses looked like lions' heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths. |
| 18By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. | 18A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, that is, by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths. |
| 19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound. | 19For the power of the horses resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries. |
| 20The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, | 20The 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 of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk about. |
| 21nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. | 21Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing. |
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