启示录
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第九章

1 第五位天使吹号，我就看见一颗星从天上落到地上，有无底坑的钥匙赐给它。
2 它开了无底坑，就有烟从坑里冒出来，好像大火炉的烟，太阳和天空因这坑的烟就都变黑了。
3 有蝗虫从烟里出来到了地上；有能力赐给它们，好像地上蝎子的能力一样。
4 有话吩咐它们，不可伤害地上的草，和所有青翠的东西，以及所有的树木，只可伤害那些额上没有　神印记的人。
5 蝗虫没有能力杀死他们，只可使他们受痛苦五个月。他们的痛苦就像人给蝎子螫了的痛苦一样。
6 在那些日子，人要求死，却决不得死；切愿要死，死却远离他们。
7 蝗虫的形象，好像是预备好了要上阵的战马一样。它们头上戴的好像金冠冕，脸像人的面孔，
8 它们的头发好像女人的头发，牙齿好像狮子的牙齿；
9 它们的胸甲像铁甲，它们翅膀的声音好像许多马车奔驰上阵的声音。
10 它们好像蝎子一样有尾巴和毒刺，它们的尾巴能伤害人五个月。
11 它们有无底坑的使者作王统治它们。这王的名字，希伯来话叫阿巴顿，希腊话叫阿波伦。
12 第一样灾祸过去了。看哪，以后还有两样灾祸要来！
13 第六位天使吹号，我听见有一个声音从　神面前金坛的四角发出来，
14 对拿着号筒的第六位天使说：“把捆绑在幼发拉底大河的那四个使者放了吧！”
15 那四个使者就被释放了，他们已经预备好，要在某年某月某日某时杀害人类的三分之一。
16 马兵的数目有二万万；他们这个数目我听见了。
17 在异象中，我看见那些马和骑马的是这样：骑马的穿着火红紫青和硫磺色的胸甲，马的头好像狮子头，有火、烟和硫磺从马的口中喷出来。
18 马口中喷出来的火、烟和硫磺这三种灾害，杀死了人类的三分之一。
19 马的能力是在口中和尾巴上。它们的尾巴像蛇，并且有头用来伤人。
20 其余没有在这些灾难中被杀的人，仍然不为他们手所作的悔改，还是去拜鬼魔和那些金、银、铜、石头、木头做的，不能看、不能听、也不能走路的偶像。
21 他们也不为自己的凶杀、邪术、淫乱和偷盗悔改。

1 The 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.
2 When 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.
3 And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
4 They 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.
5 They were not given power 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 a man.
6 During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
8 Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
10 They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.
11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God.
14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
15 And 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.
16 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
17 The 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.
18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 The 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.
20 The rest of mankind that 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.
21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.