The Seven Trumpets

⁶ Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

⁷ The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed ^(A)hail and ^(B)fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a ^(C)third of the earth was burned up, and a third of ^(D)the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

⁸ The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like ^(E)a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea ^(F)became blood. ⁹ A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of ^(G)the ships were destroyed.

¹⁰ The third angel blew his trumpet, and ^(H)a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on ^(I)the springs of water. ¹¹ The name of the star is Wormwood.^[a] A third of the waters ^(J)became wormwood, and many people died from the water, ^(K)because it had been made bitter.

¹² The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of ^(L)the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.

¹³ Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, ^(M)“Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”

9 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and ^(N)I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given ^(O)the key to the shaft of ^(P)the bottomless pit.^{[b] 2} He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft ^(Q)rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and ^(R)the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. ³ Then from the smoke came ^(S)locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. ⁴ They were told ^(T)not to harm ^(U)the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have ^(V)the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵ They were allowed to torment them ^(W)for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. ⁶ And in those days ^(X)people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

^7 (Y)In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: ^(Z)on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were ^(AA)like human faces, ⁸ their hair like women's hair, and ^(AB)their teeth like lions' teeth; ⁹ they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was ^(AC)like the noise of many chariots with ^(AD)horses rushing into battle. ¹⁰ They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people ^(AE)for five months is in their tails. ¹¹ They have ^(AF)as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is ^(AG)Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.^[c]

^12 (AH)The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.

¹³ Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from ^(AI)the four horns of the golden altar before God, ¹⁴ saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release ^(AJ)the four angels who are bound at ^(AK)the great river Euphrates.” ¹⁵ So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released ^(AL)to kill a third of mankind. ¹⁶ The number of ^(AM)mounted troops was ^(AN)twice ten thousand times ten thousand; ^(AO)I heard their number. ¹⁷ And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire^[d] and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were ^(AP)like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. ¹⁸ By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. ¹⁹ For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

²⁰ The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^(AQ)did not repent of ^(AR)the works of their hands nor give up worshiping ^(AS)demons ^(AT)and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, ²¹ nor did they repent of their murders or their ^(AU)sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

The Seventh Trumpet

¹⁵ Then ^(A)the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and ^(B)there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ^(C)“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of ^(D)his Christ, and ^(E)he shall reign forever and ever.” ¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders ^(F)who sit on their thrones before God ^(G)fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying,

¹⁹ Then ^(N)God's temple in heaven was opened, and ^(O)the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings,^[a] peals of thunder, an earthquake, and ^(P)heavy hail.