1The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
1第五位天使吹號的時候，我見有一顆星從天上墜落到地上，有無底坑的鑰匙賜給它。 2它打開無底坑時，濃煙從坑裡冒出來，好像大火爐的煙一樣，太陽和天空都變得昏暗了。 3有蝗蟲從煙裡飛出來，落到地上，有地上蠍子的能力賜給牠們。 4牠們奉命不得毀壞地上的青草、樹木和其他植物，只傷害額上沒有上帝印記的人， 5但不可殺死他們，只折磨他們五個月。他們受的折磨就像被蠍子蟄到一樣。 6那時候，人求死，卻求不到；想死，死卻躲避他們。
7那些蝗蟲好像預備出征的戰馬一樣，頭上好像戴了金冠，面孔好像人臉， 8毛髮好像女人的頭髮，牙齒好像獅子的牙， 9胸前有甲，如同鐵甲，鼓動翅膀時聲音如同許多戰馬戰車奔赴戰場。 10牠們像蠍子一樣有帶毒鉤的尾巴，能夠折磨人五個月。 11牠們的王是無底坑的天使，希伯來文名叫亞巴頓，希臘文名叫亞玻倫9·11 兩個名字的意思都是「毀滅者」。。
12第一樣災禍過去了，另外兩樣接踵而來。
13第六位天使吹號的時候，我聽見從上帝面前的金祭壇的四角傳出一個聲音， 14對剛才吹號的第六位天使說：「釋放那捆綁在幼發拉底大河的四位天使！」 15那四位天使就被釋放了，他們為了此年、此月、此日、此刻已經預備好了，要殺掉人類的三分之一。 16我聽見他們共有二億騎兵。 17我在異象中看見了馬和騎士。騎士胸甲的顏色像火焰、紫瑪瑙和硫磺。馬的頭像獅子的頭，口中噴出火、煙和硫磺。 18馬口中噴出的這三樣災害殺死了世上三分之一的人口。 19這些馬的殺傷力不只在口，也在尾巴。牠們的尾巴像蛇，有頭能咬傷人。
20其餘沒有被這些災害所殺的人仍怙惡不悛，繼續拜鬼魔和那些用金、銀、銅、石、木所造，不能看、不能聽、不能行走的偶像。 21他們也不肯為自己所犯的兇殺、邪術、淫亂和偷盜悔改。
