Revelation 9
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The fifth trumpet is followed by a representation of another star as falling from heaven and opening the bottomless pit, out of which come swarms of locusts
Verse 1
WEB The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
KJV 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.
TSK the fifth: re 9:12,13, re 8:6-8,10,12, re 11:14,15; a star: re 1:20, re 8:10, isa 14:12, lu 10:18, 2th 2:3-8, 2ti 3:1-5; to him: re 1:18, re 20:1; the bottomless: re 9:2,11, re 17:8, re 20:10, lu 8:31, ro 10:7
Verse 2
WEB He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
KJV 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.
TSK there: re 9:17, re 14:11, ge 15:17, ge 19:28, isa 14:31, joe 2:30, ac 2:19; and the sun: re 8:12, ex 10:21-23, joe 2:2,10
Verse 3
WEB Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
KJV 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.
TSK locusts: ex 10:4-15, jud 7:12, isa 33:4, joe 1:4, joe 2:25, na 3:15,17; as: re 9:5,10,11, de 8:15, 1ki 12:11, eze 2:6, lu 10:19
Verse 4
WEB They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.
KJV 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.
TSK that they: re 6:6, re 7:3, job 1:10,12, ps 76:10, mt 24:24, 2ti 3:8,9; hurt: re 8:7; which: re 7:3,4, re 14:1, ex 12:23, job 2:6, eze 9:4,6, eph 4:30
Verse 5
WEB They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.
KJV 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.
TSK it was: re 13:5,7, da 5:18-22, da 7:6, joh 19:11; they should not: re 11:7, job 2:6; they should be: re 9:10; and their: re 9:3
Verse 6
WEB In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
KJV And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
TSK shall men: re 6:16, 2sa 1:9, job 3:20-22, job 7:15,16, isa 2:19, jer 8:3, ho 10:8, joh 4:8,9, lu 23:30
Verse 7
WEB The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.
KJV 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.
Verse 9
WEB They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.
KJV 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.
TSK they had: re 9:17, job 40:18, job 41:23-30, joe 2:8; and the: job 39:25, isa 9:5, joe 2:5-7, na 2:4,5
Verse 10
WEB They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
KJV And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
TSK tails: re 9:3,5
Verse 11
WEB They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon,” but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon.”
KJV 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.
TSK they had: re 12:9, joh 12:31, joh 14:30, joh 16:11, 2co 4:4, eph 2:2, 1jo 4:4, 1jo 5:19; the angel: re 9:1; Abaddon: joh 8:44
Verse 12
WEB The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
KJV One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
TSK woe: re 9:1,2; two: re 9:13-21, re 8:13, re 11:14
The sixth trumpet is followed by the loosing of four angels bound in the great river Euphrates
Verse 14
WEB saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”
KJV Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
TSK to the: re 8:2,6; loose: re 9:15, re 16:12; the great: ge 2:14, 2sa 8:3, jer 51:63
Verse 15
WEB The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
KJV 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.
TSK an hour: re 9:5,10; for to: re 9:18, re 8:7,9,11,12
Verse 16
WEB The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them.
KJV And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
TSK the number: ps 68:17, da 7:10; horsemen: eze 23:6, eze 38:4, da 11:40; I heard: re 7:4
Verse 17
WEB Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
KJV 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.
TSK having: re 9:9; jacinth: re 21:20; brimstone: re 9:18, re 14:10, re 19:20, re 21:8, ge 19:24, ps 11:6, isa 30:33, eze 33:22; as the: 1ch 12:8, isa 5:28,29
Verse 18
WEB By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
KJV 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.
TSK the third: re 9:15,17
Verse 19
WEB For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
KJV 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.
Verse 20
WEB The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
KJV 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:
TSK yet: re 9:21, re 2:21,22, re 16:8, de 31:29, 2ch 28:22, jer 5:3, jer 8:4-6, mt 21:32, 2co 12:21; worship: le 17:7, de 32:17, 2ki 22:17, 2ch 34:25, ps 106:37, isa 2:8, jer 25:6, jer 44:8, ac 7:41, ac 19:26, 1co 10:20,21, 1ti 4:1; and idols: ps 115:4-8, ps 135:15-18, isa 40:19,20, isa 41:7, isa 42:17,18, isa 44:9-20, isa 46:5-7, jer 10:3-5,8,9,14,15, jer 15:19,20, jer 51:17, da 5:23, hab 2:18-20, ac 17:29, ro 1:21-23
Verse 21
WEB They didn’t repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
KJV Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
TSK their murders: re 11:7-9, re 13:7,15, re 16:6, re 18:24, da 7:21-25, da 11:33; their sorceries: re 13:13, re 18:23, re 21:8, re 22:15, isa 47:9,12, isa 57:3, mal 3:5; nor of their fornication: re 14:8, re 17:2,5, re 18:3, re 19:2, mt 15:19, 2co 12:21