Revelation 9 NIV NLT Parallel

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1The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.

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.

2When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.

2When he opened it, smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from the smoke.

3And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.

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 harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did 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.

5They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.

5They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.

6During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude 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 locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.

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.

8Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

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 thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

9They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle.

10They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

10They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.

11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).

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; two other woes are yet to come.

12The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming! The Sixth Trumpet Brings the Second Terror

13The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that 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.

14It said 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 kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to 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 mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.

16I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops.

17The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.

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 the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came 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.

19The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

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 still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or 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!

21Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

21And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

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