| New American Standard Bible 1995 | New Living Translation |
| 1Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. | 1Then 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. |
| 2He opened the 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. | 2When he opened it, smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from the smoke. |
| 3Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. | 3Then locusts came from the smoke and descended on the earth, and they were given power to sting like scorpions. |
| 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. | 4They 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. |
| 5And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. | 5They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting. |
| 6And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them. | 6In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them! |
| 7The 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. | 7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked like human faces. |
| 8They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. | 8They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like the teeth of a lion. |
| 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. | 9They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle. |
| 10They have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months. | 10They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people. |
| 11They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon. | 11Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon —the Destroyer. |
| 12The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things. | 12The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming! The Sixth Trumpet Brings the Second Terror |
| 13Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, | 13Then 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. |
| 14one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." | 14And the voice said to the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.” |
| 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 mankind. | 15Then 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. |
| 16The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. | 16I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops. |
| 17And 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 brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone. | 17And 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. The horses had heads like lions, and fire and smoke and burning sulfur billowed from their mouths. |
| 18A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths. | 18One-third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues—by the fire and smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of the horses. |
| 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. | 19Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people. |
| 20The rest of 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; | 20But the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to repent of their evil deeds and turn to God. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk! |
| 21and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts. | 21And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts. |
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