KJ3 Literal Translation
Revelation 9
The sounding of the fifth angel.
1And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet. And I saw a star out of the heaven falling onto the earth. And the key to the pit of the abyss was given to it.
2And he opened the pit of the abyss. And smoke went up out of the pit, like smoke of a great furnace. And the sun was darkened, and the air, by the smoke of the pit.
3And out of the smoke locusts came forth to the earth. And authority was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority.
4And it was said to them that they should not harm the grass of the earth, nor every green thing, nor every tree, if not only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they be tormented five months. And their torment is as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
6And in those days men will seek death, and they will not find it. And they will long to die, yet death will flee from them.
7And the likenesses of the locusts were like horses having been prepared for war; and on their heads as crowns, like gold; and their faces like the faces of men.
8And they had hairs like the hairs of women; and their teeth were like those of lions.
9And they had breastplates like iron breastplates; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.
10And they have tails like scorpions, and their stings were in their tails; and their authority is to harm men five months.
11And they have a king over them, the angel of the abyss. In Hebrew his name was Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
12The first woe has gone away; behold, after these things come two woes.
13And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet. And I heard one voice out of the four horns of the golden altar before God,
14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Loose the four angels, the ones having been bound at the great river Euphrates.
15And the four angels were loosed, the ones having been prepared for the hour and day and month and year that they should kill the third part of men.
16And the number of the armies of the horse was two myriads of myriads; and I heard their number.
17And so I saw in the vision the horses, and the ones sitting on them, having fiery red breastplates, and hyacinth blue and sulfur-like yellow; and the heads of the horses as heads of lions; and out of their mouths come fire and smoke and brimstone.
18By these three were killed the third part of men, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone coming out of their mouths.
19For their authority is in their mouth, and in their tails; for their tails are like snakes, having heads, and they do harm with them.
20And the rest of men, the ones who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they will not worship demons, and “golden idols, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols, which neither are able to see, nor to hear,” nor to walk. Dan. 5:23; Psa. 115:47 135:15-17
21And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.
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