| New King James Version | New Living Translation |
| 1Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. | 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. |
| 2And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of 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 locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, 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 commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those 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 given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes 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. |
| 6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee 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 shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something 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 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. |
| 9And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. | 9They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle. |
| 10They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. | 10They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people. |
| 11And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in 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. |
| 12One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are 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. |
| 14saying 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.” |
| 15So the four angels, who had been prepared for the 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. |
| 16Now the number of the army 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 thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, 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. |
| 18By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which 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. |
| 19For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having 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. |
| 20But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and 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 or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. | 21And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts. |
| The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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