7 And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree;

² and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,

³ `Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'

⁴ And I heard the number of those sealed, (144 thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel):

⁵ of the tribe of Judah 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad 12 thousand were sealed;

⁶ of the tribe of Asher 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh 12 thousand were sealed;

⁷ of the tribe of Simeon 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar 12 thousand were sealed;

⁸ of the tribe of Zebulun 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Joseph 12 thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Benjamin 12 thousand were sealed.

⁹ After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

¹⁰ and crying with a great voice, saying, `The salvation [is] to Him who is sitting upon the throne -- to our God, and to the Lamb!'

¹¹ And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God,

¹² saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, [are] to our God -- to the ages of the ages! Amen!'

¹³ And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes -- who are they, and whence came they?'

¹⁴ and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

¹⁵ because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them;

¹⁶ they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat,

¹⁷ because the Lamb that [is] in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'

8 And when he openeth the seventh seal, there came silence in the heaven about half-an-hour,

² and I saw the seven messengers who before God have stood, and there were given to them seven trumpets,

³ and another messenger did come, and he stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given to him much perfume, that he may give [it] to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar that [is] before the throne,

⁴ and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the messenger, before God;

⁵ and the messenger took the censer, and did fill it out of the fire of the altar, and did cast [it] to the earth, and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

⁶ And the seven messengers who are having the seven trumpets did prepare themselves that they may sound;

⁷ and the first messenger did sound, and there came hail and fire, mingled with blood, and it was cast to the land, and the third of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up.

⁸ And the second messenger did sound, and as it were a great mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third of the sea became blood,

⁹ and die did the third of the creatures that [are] in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.

¹⁰ And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,

¹¹ and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters doth become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter.

¹² And the fourth messenger did sound, and smitten was the third of the sun, and the third of the moon, and the third of the stars, that darkened may be the third of them, and that the day may not shine -- the third of it, and the night in like manner.

¹³ And I saw, and I heard one messenger, flying in the mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, `Wo, wo, wo, to those dwelling upon the land from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three messengers who are about to sound.'

9 And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

² and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

³ And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,

⁴ and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

⁵ and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment [is] as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;

⁶ and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

⁷ And the likenesses of the locusts [are] like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,

⁸ and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as [those] of lions,

⁹ and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings [is] as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;

¹⁰ and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five months;

¹¹ and they have over them a king -- the messenger of the abyss -- a name [is] to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.

¹² The first wo did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.

¹³ And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,

¹⁴ saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;'

¹⁵ and loosed were the four messengers, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men;

¹⁶ and the number of the forces of the horsemen [is] two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them.

¹⁷ And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses [are] as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and brimstone;

¹⁸ by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,

¹⁹ for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure;

²⁰ and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

²¹ yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.