Revelation
8
- When he opened the seventh seal, there was
silence in heaven for about half an hour.
- And I saw the seven angels who stand before
God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
- Another angel, who had a golden censer,
came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the
prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.
- The smoke of the incense, together with
the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand.
- Then the angel took the censer, filled it
with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals
of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
- Then the seven angels who had the seven
trumpets prepared to sound them.
- The first angel sounded his trumpet, and
there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the
earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned
up, and all the green grass was burned up.
- The second angel sounded his trumpet, and
something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third
of the sea turned into blood,
- a third of the living creatures in the sea
died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
- The third angel sounded his trumpet, and
a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers
and on the springs of water --
- the name of the star is Wormwood. A third
of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had
become bitter.
- The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and
a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars,
so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light,
and also a third of the night.
- As I watched, I heard an eagle that was
flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants
of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other
three angels !"
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