1 Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw a star which had fallen down to the earth, and it was given the key to the abyss. 2 The star opened the abyss, and smoke poured out of it, like the smoke from a large furnace; the sunlight and the air were darkened by the smoke from the abyss. 3 Locusts came down out of the smoke upon the earth, and they were given the same kind of power that scorpions have. 4 They were told not to harm the grass or the trees or any other plant; they could harm only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads. 5 The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting. 6 During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.
7 The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces. 8 Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9 Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breastplates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle. 10 They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months. 11 They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning “The Destroyer”).
12 The first horror is over; after this there are still two more horrors to come.
13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice coming from the four corners of the gold altar standing before God. 14 The voice said to the sixth angel, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River!” 15 The four angels were released; for this very hour of this very day of this very month and year they had been kept ready to kill a third of all the human race. 16 I was told the number of the mounted troops: it was two hundred million. 17 And in my vision I saw the horses and their riders: they had breastplates red as fire, blue as sapphire, and yellow as sulfur. The horses' heads were like lions' heads, and from their mouths came out fire, smoke, and sulfur. 18 A third of the human race was killed by those three plagues: the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur coming out of the horses' mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails are like snakes with heads, and they use them to hurt people.
20 The rest of the human race, all those who had not been killed by these plagues, did not turn away from what they themselves had made. They did not stop worshiping demons, nor the idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic, their sexual immorality, or their stealing.
1 Tad bazūnēja piektais eņģelis, un es redzēju zvaigzni krītam no debesim uz zemi. Viņam deva bezdibeņa akas atslēgu,
2 Viņš atvēra bezdibeņa aku, un no akas pacēlās dūmi kā liela cepļa dūmi, aptumšojās saule un gaiss no akas dūmiem.
3 No dūmiem nāca siseņi uz zemi, un tiem tika dota vara līdzīga zemes skorpiju varai.
4 Tiem piesacīja nemaitāt zemes zāli, ne kādu zaļumu, ne kādu koku, bet tikai cilvēkus, kas nenes uz savām pierēm Dieva zīmogu.
5 Tiem tika dots, ne viņus nokaut, bet mocīt piecus mēnešus ilgi, un viņu mokas līdzīgas mokām, kad skorpijs sadzēlis cilvēku.
6 Tad tanīs dienās cilvēki meklēs nāvi, bet neatradīs, viņi gribēs mirt, bet nāve bēgs no viņiem.
7 Siseņi līdzīgi zirgiem, kas jūgti karam; uz to galvām ir kā vainagi, zeltam līdzīgi, un to ģīmji kā cilvēku ģīmji.
8 Tiem mati kā sieviešu mati un zobi kā lauvas zobi.
9 To bruņas līdzīgas dzelzs bruņām un to spārnu švīkstoņa kā ratu troksnis, kad daudz zirgu skrien cīņā.
10 Astes tiem līdzīgas skorpijiem, tiem arī ir dzeloņi, to astēs ir to spēks cilvēkus mocīt piecus mēnešus ilgi.
11 Pār tiem ir ķēniņš, bezdibeņa eņģelis, kam vārds ebrēju valodā Abadons, bet grieķu valodā Apollions.
12 Pirmais „vai“ pārgājis, raugi, pēc tam nāk vēl divi „vai.“
13 Kad sestais eņģelis bazūnēja, tad es dzirdēju balsi no zelta altāra četriem stūriem Dieva priekšā
14 Sakām sestajam eņģelim, kam bija bazūne: „Atraisi četrus eņģeļus, kas saistīti pie lielās upes Eifratas.“
15 Tad atsvabināja četrus eņģeļus, kas bija gatavi noliktā stundā, dienā, mēnesī, gadā nokaut trešo daļu cilvēku.
16 Jātnieku pulka skaits bija divreiz miriādu miriādes. Es dzirdēju viņu skaitu.
17 Un tā es skatā redzēju zirgus un tos, kas uz tiem sēdēja, kam bija ugunīgas, tumši zilas un sēra dzeltenas bruņas, un zirgu galvas kā lauvu galvas, un no to mutēm nāca uguns, dūmi un sērs.
18 Ar šīm trim mocībām tika nokauta 1 trešā daļa cilvēku, ar uguni, ar dūmiem un ar sēru, kas nāca no to mutēm.
19 Jo zirgu spēks ir to mutēs un to astēs, jo to astēm, līdzīgi čūskām, ir galvas, ar kurām tie nes postu.
20 Visi citi cilvēki, ko nenokāva šais mocībās, tomēr neatgriezās no savu roku darbiem, bet pielūdza ļaunos garus, zelta, sudraba, vara, akmens un koka elku tēlus, kas nevar ne redzēt, ne dzirdēt, ne staigāt.
21 Un viņi neatgriezās ne no savām slepkavībām, ne no savām burvībām, ne no savas netiklības, ne no savām zādzī-bām.
