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King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation
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| 9:1 |
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. |
And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss, |
| 9:2 |
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. |
and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit. |
| 9:3 |
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. |
And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority, |
| 9:4 |
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. |
and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads, |
| 9:5 |
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. |
and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment `is' as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man; |
| 9:6 |
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. |
and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them. |
| 9:7 |
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. |
And the likenesses of the locusts `are' like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men, |
| 9:8 |
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. |
and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as `those' of lions, |
| 9:9 |
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. |
and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings `is' as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle; |
| 9:10 |
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. |
and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority `is' to injure men five months; |
| 9:11 |
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. |
and they have over them a king -- the messenger of the abyss -- a name `is' to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon. |
| 9:12 |
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. |
The first wo did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things. |
| 9:13 |
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, |
And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God, |
| 9:14 |
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. |
saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;' |
| 9:15 |
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. |
and loosed were the four messengers, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men; |
| 9:16 |
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. |
and the number of the forces of the horsemen `is' two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them. |
| 9:17 |
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. |
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses `are' as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and brimstone; |
| 9:18 |
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. |
by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth, |
| 9:19 |
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. |
for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails `are' like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure; |
| 9:20 |
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: |
and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk, |
| 9:21 |
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. |
yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts. |
