Book of Revelation, Chapter 9

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Revelation 9 NWT - New World Translation

Chapter 9 of Revelation—New World Translation (NWT)

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1. ¶ And the fifth angel blew his trumpet.¹ And I saw a star² that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key³ of the pit of the abyss⁴ was given him.^[a]
2. And he^[b] opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke⁵ ascended out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace,⁶ and the sun was darkened,⁷ also the air, by the smoke of the pit.
3. And out of the smoke locusts⁸ came forth upon the earth; and authority was given them, the same authority as the scorpions⁹ of the earth have.
4. And they were told to harm no vegetation of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.¹⁰
5. ¶ And it was granted the [locusts], not to kill them, but that these should be tormented¹¹ five months, and the torment upon them was as torment by a scorpion¹² when it strikes a man.
6. And in those days the men will seek death¹³ but will by no means find it, and they will desire to die but death keeps fleeing from them.
7. ¶ And the likenesses of the locusts resembled horses¹⁴ prepared for battle; and upon their heads [were] what seemed to be crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as men’s faces,¹⁵
8. but they had hair as women’s hair.¹⁶ And their teeth were as those of lions;¹⁷
9. and they had breastplates¹⁸ like iron breastplates. And the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots¹⁹ of many horses running into battle.²⁰
10. Also, they have tails and stings like scorpions;²¹ and in their tails is their authority to hurt^[c] the men five months.
11. They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss.²² In Hebrew his name is A·badʹdon,^[d] but in Greek he has the name A·polʹlyon.^[e]23
12. ¶ The one woe is past. Look! Two more woes²⁴ are coming after these things.^[f]
13. ¶ And the sixth angel²⁵ blew his trumpet.²⁶ And I heard one voice²⁷ out of the horns^[g] of the golden altar²⁸ that is before God
14. say to the sixth angel, who had the trumpet: “Untie the four angels²⁹ that are bound³⁰ at the great river Eu·phraʹtes.”³¹
15. And the four angels were untied, who have been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, to kill a third of the men.
16. ¶ And the number of the armies of cavalry^[h] was two myriads of myriads:^[i] I heard the number of them.
17. And this is how I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them: they had fire-red and hyacinth-blue and sulphur-yellow breastplates; and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions,³² and out of their mouths fire and smoke and sulphur³³ issued forth.
18. By these three plagues a third of the men were killed, from the fire and the smoke and the sulphur which issued forth from their mouths.
19. For the authority of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents³⁴ and have heads, and with these they do harm.
20. ¶ But the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands,³⁵ so that they should not worship the demons³⁶ and the idols of gold and silver³⁷ and copper and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;³⁸
21. and they did not repent of their murders³⁹ nor of their spiritistic practices^[j]40 nor of their fornication nor of their thefts.

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FOOTNOTES

1. ^ Or, “it.”
2. ^ Or, “it.”
3. ^ Lit., “to treat unrighteously.”
4. ^ “Abaddon.” Or, “Destruction.” J^17,18,22(Heb.), ʼAvad·dohnʹ. Compare Job 26:6; Ps 88:11; Pr 15:11 ftns, “Destruction.”
5. ^ “Apollyon.” Or, “Destroyer.” Gr., A·pol·lyʹon. Vg adds: “and in Latin he has the name Exterminator (Ex·terʹmi·nans).” See Mt 7:13 ftn.
6. ^ Or, “the following things.”
7. ^ “Out of the horns,” P⁴⁷א^cAIt^mssSy^h; Vg^c, “out of the four horns.”
8. ^ Or, “of the horsemen.”
9. ^ Or, “twenty thousand times ten thousand,” that is, 200,000,000.
10. ^ “Spiritistic practices.” Or, “sorceries.” Lit., “drugs.” Gr., phar·maʹkon.

REFERENCES

1. ^ Re 8:2
2. ^ Nu 24:17; Re 22:16
3. ^ Re 20:1
4. ^ Lu 8:31; Re 9:11
5. ^ Ex 19:18; Jl 2:30
6. ^ Ge 19:28
7. ^ Jl 2:2, 10
8. ^ Ex 10:4, 12
9. ^ De 8:15; Lu 11:12
10. ^ Re 7:3
11. ^ Re 16:9; 18:7
12. ^ Re 9:10
13. ^ Jb 3:21; Re 6:16
14. ^ Jl 2:4
15. ^ Jl 2:6
16. ^ 1Co 11:15; Eph 5:24
17. ^ Jl 1:6
18. ^ Eph 6:14; 1Th 5:8; 2Ti 2:3
19. ^ Jl 2:5
20. ^ 2Co 10:4
21. ^ Re 9:5
22. ^ Re 9:1; 20:1
23. ^ Lu 4:34; Re 19:15
24. ^ Re 8:13
25. ^ Re 8:6
26. ^ Re 11:15
27. ^ Re 1:12
28. ^ Re 8:3
29. ^ Ga 4:14
30. ^ Ps 102:20; 137:1; 142:7; Is 42:7; 49:9
31. ^ Ge 2:14; Re 16:12; 17:15
32. ^ 1Ch 12:8; Pr 28:1
33. ^ Ps 11:6
34. ^ Je 8:17
35. ^ De 31:29; Je 5:3
36. ^ De 32:17; Ps 106:37; 1Co 10:20
37. ^ Ps 115:4; 135:15
38. ^ Is 44:9; Je 10:5; Da 5:23
39. ^ Ex 20:13
40. ^ Ga 5:20

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