Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Living Translation NLT
1 And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet: and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth. And there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit.
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Then 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.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace. And the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.
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When he opened it, smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from the smoke.
3 And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
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Then locusts came from the smoke and descended on the earth, and they were given power to sting like scorpions.
4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree: but only the men who have not the sign of God on their foreheads.
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They 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.
5 And it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but that they should torment them five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.
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They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.
6 And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.
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In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!
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.
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The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked like human faces.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as lions.
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They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like the teeth of a lion.
9 And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.
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They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle.
10 And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them
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They had tails that stung like scorpions, and for five months they had the power to torment people.
11 A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).
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Their king is the angel from the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is and in Greek, —the Destroyer.
12 One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.
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The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming!
13 And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet: and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before the eyes of God,
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Then 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.
14 Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet: Loose the four angels who are bound in the great river Euphrates.
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And the voice said to the sixth angel who held the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.”
15 And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men.
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Then 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.
16 And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty thousand times ten thousand. And I heard the number of them.
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I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision. And they that sat on them had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone. And the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and brimstone.
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And 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.
18 And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths.
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One-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.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents and have heads: and with them they hurt.
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Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people.
20 And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk:
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But 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!
21 Neither did they penance from their murders nor from their sorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts.
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And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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