Åbenbaringen 9 | Bibelen på hverdagsdansk

Bibelen på hverdagsdansk

Den femte trompet

1 Da den femte engel blæste i sin trompet, så jeg, at der faldt en stjerne fra himlen ned på jorden. Den fik nøglen til skakten, som fører ned til jordens indre afgrund. 2 Den åbnede for skakten ned til afgrunden, og en røgsky som fra en meget stor ovn steg op og skyggede for solen, så det blev halvmørkt over det hele. 3 Ud af røgskyen kom der græshopper, som spredte sig ud over jorden, og de blev udstyret med den samme gift, som skorpioner har. 4 De fik at vide, at de hverken måtte angribe græs, urter eller træer, men kun de mennesker, der ikke havde Guds mærke på panden. 5 De fik ikke lov til at slå dem ihjel, men til at pine dem i fem måneder. Og smerterne er, som når man bliver stukket af en skorpion. 6 Det bliver så pinefuldt, at menneskene vil ønske at dø, men de dør ikke. 7 Græshopperne lignede heste, der er rustet til krig. Det var, som om de havde gyldne kranse på hovederne. Deres ansigter lignede menneskeansigter. 8 Deres hår var langt som en kvindes hår, og deres tænder frygtindgydende som en løves tænder. 9 De var dækket af brynjer, der var lavet af jern, og lyden af deres vinger var som lyden af mange stridsvogne med heste i fuldt trav. 10 De havde haler med en stikkende brod ligesom skorpioner, og med deres stik havde de magt til at plage menneskene i fem måneder. 11 De havde en hersker over sig, nemlig afgrundens engel. Hans hebraiske navn er Abaddon, og hans græske navn er Apollyon.^[1] 12 Det var det første „ak og ve”, men der er endnu to tilbage.

Den sjette trompet

13 Da den sjette engel blæste i sin trompet, hørte jeg en stemme, der kom fra hornene på det forgyldte røgelsesalter i Guds tempel. 14 Stemmen råbte til den sjette engel, der havde trompeten: „Løs de fire engle, der står bundne ved den store flod Eufrat!” 15 De fire engle, som var holdt i beredskab til netop denne time, dag, måned og år, blev løst, og deres opgave var at dræbe en tredjedel af alle mennesker. 16 De sendte en rytterhær af sted på 20.000 gange 10.000 mand. Jeg hørte tallet blive nævnt. 17 Jeg iagttog hestene såvel som de ryttere, der sad på dem. Rytterne havde ildrøde, mørkeblå og svovlgule rustninger på. Hestenes hoveder var frygtindgydende som løvehoveder, og røg og ild og brændende svovl stod ud af munden på dem. 18 En tredjedel af alle mennesker blev dræbt af røgen, ilden og den brændende svovl. 19 Hestene kunne dræbe både med munden og med halen. Halen lignede en slange og havde et hoved, som huggede efter folk. 20 De mennesker, der overlevede disse plager, holdt dog ikke op med deres onde handlinger. De fortsatte med at dyrke onde ånder og afgudsbilleder af guld, sølv, kobber, sten og træ, afguder, der hverken kan se eller høre eller bevæge sig. 21 De holdt ikke op med deres voldshandlinger, okkultisme, seksuelle synder og tyverier.

King James Version

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 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. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 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. 12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 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. 16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. 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. 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. 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. 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: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.