Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 Then the fifth angel blew his
trumpet. I saw a star which had
fallen down to the earth, and it was
given the key to the abyss. note
2 The
star opened the abyss, and smoke
poured out of it, like the smoke from
a large furnace; the sunlight and the
air were darkened by the smoke
from the abyss. note
3 Locusts came
down out of the smoke upon the
earth, and they were given the same
kind of power that scorpions have. note
4 They were told not to harm the
grass or the trees or any other plant;
they could harm only the people
who did not have the mark of God's
seal on their foreheads. note
5 The locusts
were not allowed to kill these people,
but only to torture them for five
months. The pain caused by the torture
is like the pain caused by a scorpion's
sting.
6 During those five
months they will seek death, but will
not find it; they will want to die, but
death will flee from them. note
7 The locusts looked like horses
ready for battle; on their heads they
had what seemed to be crowns of
-- --
gold, and their faces were like men's
faces. note
8 Their hair was like women's
hair, their teeth were like lions'
teeth. note
9 Their chests were covered
with what looked like iron breastplates,
and the sound made by their
wings was like the noise of many
horse-drawn chariots rushing into
battle. note
10 They have tails and stings
like those of a scorpion, and it is
with their tails that they have the
power to hurt people for five
months.
11 They have a king ruling
over them, who is the angel in
charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew
is Abaddon; in Greek the name
is Apollyon (meaning “The Destroyer”).
12 The first horror is over; after this
there are still two more horrors to
come.
13 Then the sixth angel blew his
trumpet. I heard a voice coming
from the four corners of the gold altar
standing before God. note
14 The voice
said to the sixth angel, “Release the
four angels who are bound at the
great Euphrates River!”
15 The four
angels were released; for this very
hour of this very day of this very
month and year they had been kept
ready to kill a third of all mankind.
16 I was told the number of the
mounted troops: it was two hundred
million.
17 And in my vision I saw the
horses and their riders: they had
breastplates red as fire, blue as sapphire,
and yellow as sulfur. The
horses' heads were like lions' heads,
and from their mouths came out fire,
smoke, and sulfur. note
18 A third of mankind
was killed by those three
plagues: the fire, the smoke, and the
sulfur coming out of the horses'
mouths.
19 For the power of the
horses is in their mouths and also in
their tails. Their tails are like snakes
with heads, and they use them to
hurt people.
20 The rest of mankind, all those
who had not been killed by these
plagues, did not turn away from
what they themselves had made.
They did not stop worshiping demons,
nor the idols of gold, silver,
bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot
see, hear, or walk. note
21 Nor did they
repent of their murders, their magic,
their sexual immorality, or their
stealing.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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