Qǐshìlù 9:13-21

13 Dì liù wèi tiānshǐ chuīhào , wǒ jiù tīngjian yǒu shēngyīn , cóng shén miànqián jīn tán de sì jiǎo chūlai ,

14 Fēnfu nà chuīhào de dì liù wèi tiānshǐ , shuō , bǎ nà kúnbǎng zaì Bólā dà hé de sì gè shǐzhĕ shìfàng le .

15 Nà sì gè shǐzhĕ jiù beì shìfàng . tāmen yuán shì yùbeì hǎo le , dào mǒu nián mǒu yuè mǒu rì mǒu shí , yào shārén de sān fèn zhīyī .

16 Mǎ jūn yǒu èr wàn wàn . tāmende shùmù wǒ tīngjian le .

17 Wǒ zaì yìxiàng zhòng kànjian nàxiē mǎ hé qí mǎ de , qí mǎ de xiōng qián yǒu jiǎ rú huǒ , yǔ zǐ mǎnǎo , bìng liúhuáng . mǎ de tóu hǎoxiàng shīzitóu , yǒu huǒ , yǒu yān , yǒu liúhuáng , cóng mǎ de kǒu zhòng chūlai .

18 Kǒu zhōng suǒ chūlai de huǒ , yǔ yān , bìng liúhuáng , zhè sān yàng zāi shā le rén de sān fēn zhīyī .

19 Zhè mǎ de nénglì , shì zaì kǒu lǐ , hé wĕiba shàng . yīn zhè wĕiba xiàng shé , bìngqiĕ yǒu tóu yòng yǐ haì rén .

20 Qíyú wèicéng beì zhè zāi suǒ shā de rén , réngjiù bù huǐgǎi zìjǐ shǒu suǒ zuò de , háishì qù baì guǐ mó , hé nàxiē bùnéng kàn , bùnéng tīng , bùnéng zǒu , jīn , yín , tóng , mù , shí , de ǒuxiàng .

21 Yòu bù huǐgǎi tāmen nàxiē xiōngshā , xiéshù , jiānyín , tōuqiè de shì .

Qǐshìlù 9:13-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO REVELATION 9

This chapter gives an account of the blowing of the fifth and sixth trumpets, and of the effects following upon them. The fifth angel blows his trumpet, and a star falls; the key of the bottomless pit is given to him, which being opened by it, out of it comes smoke to the darkening of the sun and air, and out of the smoke locusts, who have power like scorpions, Re 9:1-3; whose power is restrained from using it to the hurt of the grass, or any green thing or tree, only of those who had not the seal of God in their foreheads; but are permitted, though not to kill men, yet to torment them five months, which is worse than death unto them, Re 9:4-6. The shapes of these locusts, which are said to be like horses, are described by their heads, faces, hair, teeth, breastplates, wings, and tails, and are said to have a king over them, whose name is mentioned, Re 9:7-11. The blowing of this trumpet brings on one of the woes mentioned in Re 8:13, and the two other follow, Re 9:12. The sixth angel blows his trumpet, and a voice is heard from the horns of the altar, directed to the said angel, ordering him to loose four angels bound in the great river Euphrates, where they were prepared, for a determinate time, to slay the third part of men, and they were loosed accordingly, Re 9:13-15. The number of the army, under these angels, is given, Re 9:16, and the horses and horsemen are described; the riders by their breastplates of fire, jacinth, and brimstone; their horses' heads as heads of lions, fire, smoke, and brimstone, issuing out of their mouths, by which the third part of men are killed, Re 9:17,18. The reason of this slaughter is, because they had power both in their mouth and tails, which latter were like serpents, and had heads, with which they did mischief, Re 9:19; and yet such who were not killed by these plagues, but escaped, did not repent of their idolatry, murders, sorceries, fornication, and theft, Re 9:20,21.