| New International Version | NET Bible |
| 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 from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss. |
| 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. | 2He opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it like smoke from a giant furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft. |
| 3And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. | 3Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. |
| 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 damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their forehead. |
| 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. | 5The locusts were not given permission to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and their torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings a person. |
| 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 be able to 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. | 7Now the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, and their faces looked like men's faces. |
| 8Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. | 8They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. |
| 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 had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. |
| 10They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. | 10They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails. |
| 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). | 11They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. |
| 12The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come. | 12The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things! |
| 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 single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God, |
| 14It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." | 14saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, "Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" |
| 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, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity. |
| 16The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number. | 16The number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; I heard their number. |
| 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. | 17Now this is what the horses and their riders looked like in my vision: The riders had breastplates that were fiery red, dark blue, and sulfurous yellow in color. The heads of the horses looked like lions' heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths. |
| 18A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. | 18A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, that is, by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths. |
| 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. | 19For the power of the horses resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries. |
| 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. | 20The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood--idols that cannot see or hear or walk about. |
| 21Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts. | 21Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing. |
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