| NET Bible | New Living Translation |
| 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. | 1Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. |
| 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. | 2When he opened it, smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from the smoke. |
| 3Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. | 3Then locusts came from the smoke and descended on the earth, and they were given power to sting like scorpions. |
| 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. | 4They were told not to harm the grass or plants or trees, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. |
| 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. | 5They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting. |
| 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. | 6In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them! |
| 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. | 7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked like human faces. |
| 8They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. | 8They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like the teeth of a lion. |
| 9They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. | 9They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle. |
| 10They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails. | 10They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people. |
| 11They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. | 11Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon —the Destroyer. |
| 12The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things! | 12The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming! The Sixth Trumpet Brings the Second Terror |
| 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, | 13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice speaking from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God. |
| 14saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet, "Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!" | 14And the voice said to the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.” |
| 15Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour, day, month, and year were set free to kill a third of humanity. | 15Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one-third of all the people on earth. |
| 16The number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; I heard their number. | 16I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops. |
| 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. | 17And in my vision, I saw the horses and the riders sitting on them. The riders wore armor that was fiery red and dark blue and yellow. The horses had heads like lions, and fire and smoke and burning sulfur billowed from 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. | 18One-third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues—by the fire and smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of the horses. |
| 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. | 19Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people. |
| 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. | 20But the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to repent of their evil deeds and turn to God. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that can neither see nor hear nor walk! |
| 21Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing. | 21And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts. |
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