Offenbarung 9 | Nádej pre kazdého

1 Tu zatrúbil piaty anjel. Videl som, ako z neba spadla na zem ďalšia hviezda. Mala kľúč od pažeráka priepasti. 2 Len čo sa priepasť otvorila, vyvalil sa z nej dym ako z obrovskej vyhne a zastrel slnko i všetko povetrie. 3 Z dymu sa vyrojili na zem kobylky a dostali moc, akú majú pozemské škorpióny. 4 Ale mali príkaz neškodiť tráve na zemi ani zeleni stromov, iba ľuďom, ktorí nemajú na čele Božie znamenie. 5 Ale nesmeli ľudí usmrcovať, iba trápiť päť mesiacov. Bolesť, čo spôsobujú, sa podobá uštipnutiu škorpióna. 6 Vtedy budú ľudia túžiť po smrti, ale márne, budú si žiadať zomrieť, ale smrť od nich utečie. 7 Kobylky sa podobali koňom vychystaným do boja. Hlavy sa im jagali, akoby mali na nich zlaté vence, a mali ľudský výzor. Hrivy im povievali ako ženské vlasy a ich zuby boli levie. 9 Prsia akoby mali okované železným pancierom a zvuk ich krídel pripomínal rachot vozov tiahnúcich do boja. 10 A chvosty mali ako škorpióni a v nich žihadlá, aby nimi trýznili ľudí päť mesiacov. 11 Ako kráľ nad nimi vládol anjel priepasti. Po hebrejsky sa volá Abaddon, po grécky Apollyon – Zhubca. 12 Ale to ešte nie je koniec. Prvá pohroma prešla a už sú tu dve ďalšie.

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13 Zatrúbil šiesty anjel. Počul som akýsi hlas od štyroch rohov zlatého oltára, ktorý je pred Bohom. 14 Ten hlas rozkázal šiestemu anjelovi, čo mal poľnicu: „Rozviaž štyroch anjelov spútaných pri veľkej rieke Eufrat.“ 15 Tu boli rozviazaní tí štyria anjeli, pripravení na hodinu, deň, mesiac a rok, kedy majú pobiť tretinu ľudí. 16 V ich obrovskom vojsku bolo dvesto miliónov jazdcov; dozvedel som sa ich presný počet. 17 A potom sa mi zjavil takýto obraz: Videl som jazdcov, ako sa nesú na koňoch a majú ohnivočervené, fialovomodré a sírovožlté panciere. Hlavy koní boli ako hlavy levov a z tlám im sršal oheň, dym a síra. 18 Touto trojitou pohromou – ohňom, dymom a sírou z tlám – usmrtili tretinu ľudí. 19 Vražedná moc tých koní nevychádzala iba z tlám, ale aj z ich chvostov, ktoré boli ako jedovaté hady a nimi ľudí štípali. 20 Avšak ľudia, ktorí prežili tieto pohromy, nerobili pokánie a neodvrátili sa od výtvorov svojich rúk. Neprestali sa klaňať démonom a modlám zo zlata, striebra, medi, kameňa a dreva, ktoré sú slepé, hluché a nemôžu sa pohybovať. 21 Nie, ľudia sa vôbec nezmenili, neprestali sa vraždiť, nezanechali čarovanie, smilstvo a krádeže.

English Standard Version

1 And 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.* 2 He 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. 3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 4 They 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. 5 They 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. 6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. 7 In 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, 8 their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; 9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. 10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. 11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.* 12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come. 13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So 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. 16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 17 And 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* and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 19 For 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. 20 The 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, 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Offenbarung 9 | Nádej pre kazdého English Standard Version

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