from Crossway1And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.[1] (Lu 8:31; Lu 10:18; Ro 10:7; Re 1:18; Re 8:10; Re 9:2; Re 9:11; Re 11:7; Re 12:9; Re 17:8; Re 20:1; Re 20:3)2He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. (Ge 19:28; Isa 34:10; Joe 2:10)3Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. (Ex 10:4)4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. (Re 6:6; Re 7:2; Re 7:3; Re 8:7)5They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. (Re 9:10)6And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. (Job 3:21; Job 7:15; Jer 8:3)7In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, (Da 7:8; Joe 2:4; Na 3:17)8their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; (Joe 1:6)9they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. (Job 39:21; Jer 8:6; Joe 2:5)10They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. (Re 9:5)11They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.[2] (Job 18:14; Job 26:6; Pr 30:27; Eph 2:2)12The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come. (Re 8:13; Re 11:14)13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, (Ex 30:3)14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” (Re 7:1; Re 16:12)15So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. (Re 8:7)16The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. (Ps 68:17; Eze 38:4; Da 7:10; Re 7:4)17And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire[3] and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. (1Ch 12:8; Isa 5:28)18By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.20The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, (De 31:29; Ps 115:4; Ps 135:15; Jer 1:16; Jer 25:14; Da 5:23; 1Co 10:20; Re 2:21)21nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. (Ga 5:20; Re 21:8; Re 22:15)
Revelation 9
圣经当代译本修订版
from Biblica1第五位天使吹号的时候，我见有一颗星从天上坠落到地上，有无底坑的钥匙赐给它。2它打开无底坑时，浓烟从坑里冒出来，好像大火炉的烟一样，太阳和天空都变得昏暗了。3有蝗虫从烟里飞出来，落到地上，有地上蝎子的能力赐给它们。4它们得到命令，不得毁坏地上的青草、树木和其他植物，只伤害额上没有上帝印记的人，5但不可杀死他们，只折磨他们五个月。那种折磨就像被蝎子蛰到一样。6那时候，人求死，却求不到；想死，死却躲避他们。7那些蝗虫好像预备出征的战马一样，头上好像戴了金冠，面孔好像人脸，8毛发好像女人的头发，牙齿好像狮子的牙，9胸前有甲，如同铁甲，鼓动翅膀时声音如同千军万马奔赴战场。10它们像蝎子一样尾巴上有毒钩，可以折磨人五个月。11它们的王是无底坑的天使，希伯来文名叫亚巴顿，希腊文名叫亚玻伦，意思是“毁灭者”。12第一样灾祸过去了，另外两样接踵而来。13第六位天使吹号的时候，我听见有一个声音从上帝面前的金祭坛的四个角发出来，14对刚才吹号的第六位天使说：“将那捆绑在幼发拉底河的四个天使放出来！”15那四个天使就被释放了，他们为了此年、此月、此日、此刻已经预备好了，要杀掉人类的三分之一。16我听见他们共有二亿兵马。17我在异象中看见了马和骑士。骑士胸甲的颜色像火焰、紫玛瑙和硫磺。马的头像狮子的头，口中喷出火、烟和硫磺。18马口中喷出的这三样灾害杀死了世上三分之一的人口。19这些马的杀伤力不只在口，也在尾巴。它们的尾巴像蛇，有头能咬伤人。20其余没有被这些灾害所杀的人仍不肯悔改、停止手中的恶行，还是去拜魔鬼和那些用金、银、铜、石、木所造，不能看、不能听、不能行走的偶像。21他们不肯为自己所犯的凶杀、邪术、淫乱和偷盗悔改。