Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 Then the fifth angel blew; and I saw a Star that had fallen
upon the earth from the heavens, and to him was given the
key of the bottomless pit.
2 He opened the bottomless pit, and
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from the pit rose a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace.
The sun and the air grew dark because of the smoke from the
pit. note
3 Out of the smoke locusts descended upon the earth, and
they received the same power as that possessed by scorpions.
4 They were told not to harm the grass, or any plant, or any
tree, but only those who have not ‘the seal of God upon their
foreheads.’ note note
5 Yet they were not allowed to kill them, but it
was ordered that those men should be tortured for five months.
Their torture was like the torture caused by a scorpion when
it stings a man.
6 In those days men ‘will seek Death and
will not find it’; they will long to die, but Death flees from
them. note
7 In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped
for battle. note On their heads there were what appeared to be
crowns that shone like gold, their faces resembled human
faces,
8 and they had hair like the hair of a woman, their teeth
were like lions' teeth, note
9 and they had what seemed to be iron
breastplates, while the noise of their wings was like the noise
of chariots drawn by many horses, galloping into battle. note
10 They
have tails like scorpions, and stings, and in their tails lies
their power to harm men for five months.
11 They have as their
king the Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name, in Hebrew,
is ‘Abaddon,’ while, in Greek, his name is ‘Apollyon’ (the
Destroyer).
12 The first Woe has passed; and still there are two Woes to
follow!
13 Then the sixth angel blew; and I heard a voice proceeding
from the corners of the golden altar that stood before God.
14 It spoke to the sixth angel—the angel with the trumpet—and
said ‘Let loose the four angels that are in chains at the great
river Euphrates.’ note
15 Then the four angels, that were held in
readiness for that hour and day and month and year, were let
loose, to destroy a third of mankind.
16 The number of the
hosts of horsemen was ten thousand times ten thousand, twice
told; I heard their number.
17 And this is what the horses and
their riders appeared to be like in my vision:—They had
breastplates of fire, blood-red and sulphurous, and the heads
of the horses were like lions' heads, while out of their mouths
issue fire, and smoke, and sulphur.
18 Through these three
Curses a third of mankind perished—because of the fire, and
the smoke, and the sulphur that issued from their mouths;
19 for the power of the horses lies in their mouths and in their
tails. For their tails are like snakes, with heads, and it is with
them that they do harm.
20 But those who were left of mankind,
who had not perished through these Curses, did not repent and
turn away from what their own hands had made; they would
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not abandon the worship of ‘demons, and of idols made of
gold or silver or brass or stone or wood, which can neither see,
nor hear, nor walk’; note
21 and they did not repent of their murders,
or their sorceries, or their licentiousness, or their thefts. note
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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