1And 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. 2And 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. 3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4And 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. 5And 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. 6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 7And 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. 8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9And 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. 10And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 11And 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. 12One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15And 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. 16And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. 17And 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. 18By 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. 19For 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. 20And 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: 21Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Peta trublja: prva strahota
1Zatrubi peti anđeo. Ugledam zvijezdu koja je pala s neba na zemlju. Dobila je ključ od zjala Bezdana. 2Kad ga otvori, iz njega sukne dim kao iz goleme peći te zamrači sunce i zrak.
3Iz dima pak iziđu skakavci koji mogu bosti poput štipavaca. 4Dobili su zapovijed da ne ude travi ni biljkama ni drveću, već da napadaju ljude koji nemaju Božji pečat na čelu. 5Ne smiju ubijati ljude, nego ih samo mučiti pet mjeseci. Bol koju nanose slična je boli od uboda štipavca. 6U te će dane ljudi tražiti smrt, ali ju neće naći, željet će umrijeti, ali će smrt bježati od njih!
7Skakavci izgledaju poput konja spremnih za borbu. Na glavama im zlatni vijenci, a lica poput ljudskih. 8Kosa im duga kao u žena, a zubi poput lavljih. 9Imaju na sebi željezni oklop, a šum je njihovih krila poput štropota cijele vojske bojnih kola koja juri u boj. 10Repovima mogu bosti poput štipavaca, žalcima mučiti ljude pet mjeseci. 11Vođa im je anđeo Bezdana. Na hebrejskome se zove Abadon, a na grčkome Apolion—Uništavač.
12Jedna strahota prolazi, ali za njom, evo, dolaze druge dvije!
Šesta trublja: druga strahota
13Zatrubi šesti anđeo. Začujem glas iz rogova zlatnoga žrtvenika pred Bogom. 14Govorio je šestom anđelu koji je imao trublju: “Oslobodi onu četvoricu anđela svezanih na velikoj rijeci Eufratu!” 15I odriješena su četiri anđela spremna za taj čas, dan, mjesec i godinu da pobiju trećinu svih ljudi na zemlji. 16Broj konjaničkih četa iznosio je dvjesto milijuna—čuo sam koliko ih ima.
17U viđenju sam vidio konje i jahače na njima. Imali su na sebi oklope ognjene, plavetne i sumpornožute boje. Glave konja bile su poput lavljih, a iz usta su im sukljali oganj, dim i sumpor. 18Trećina ljudi na zemlji poginula je od tih triju pošasti—ognja, dima i sumpora što su konjima sukljali iz usta. 19Snaga tih konja nije bila samo u ustima već i u repovima. Na njima su imali glave poput zmijskih, koje su udile ljudima.
20Preostali ljudi, koji nisu poginuli od tih zala, ipak se nisu htjeli obratiti od zlih djela. I dalje su se klanjali zlodusima i idolima—načinjenima od zlata, srebra, mjedi, kamena ili drva—idolima koji ne vide, ne čuju i ne hodaju. 21Nisu se pokajali za svoja ubojstva, ni vračanja, ni blud, ni krađe.
