Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Revelation | Page 7

008:012 Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet; and a curse fell upon a third part of the sun, a third part of the moon, and a third part of the stars, so that a third part of them were darkened and for a third of the day, and also of the night, there was no light. 008:013 Then I looked, and I heard a solitary eagle crying in a loud voice, as it flew across the sky, "Alas, alas, alas, for the inhabitants of the earth, because of the significance of the remaining trumpets which the three angels are about to blow!" 009:001 The fifth angel blew his trumpet; and I saw a Star which had fallen from Heaven to the earth; and to him was given the key of the depths of the bottomless pit, 009:002 and he opened the depths of the bottomless pit. And smoke came up out of the pit resembling the smoke of a vast furnace, so that the sun was darkened, and the air also, by reason of the smoke of the pit. 009:003 And from the midst of the smoke there came locusts on to the earth, and power was given to them resembling the power which earthly scorpions possess. 009:004 And they were forbidden to injure the herbage of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree. They were only to injure human beings-- those who have not the seal of God on their foreheads. 009:005 Their mission was not to kill, but to cause awful agony for five months; and this agony was like that which a scorpion inflicts when it stings a man. 009:006 And at that time people will seek death, but will by no possibility find it, and will long to die, but death evades them. 009:007 The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses equipped for war. On their heads they had wreaths which looked like gold. 009:008 Their faces seemed human and they had hair like women's hair, but their teeth resembled those of lions. 009:009 They had breast-plates which seemed to be made of steel; and the noise caused by their wings was like that of a vast number of horses and chariots hurrying into battle. 009:010 They had tails like those of scorpions, and also stings; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind for five months. 009:011 The locusts had a king over them--the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is `Abaddon,' while in the Greek he is called `Apollyon.' 009:012 The first woe is past; two other woes have still to come. 009:013 The sixth angel blew his trumpet; and I heard a single voice speaking from among the horns of the golden incense altar which is in the presence of God. 009:014 It said to the sixth angel--the angel who had the trumpet, "Set at liberty the four angels who are prisoners near the great river Euphrates." 009:015 And the four angels who had been kept in readiness for that hour, day, month, and year, were set at liberty, so that they might kill a third part of mankind. 009:016 The number of the cavalry was two hundred millions; I heard their number. 009:017 And this was the appearance of the horses which I saw in my vision-- and of their riders. The body-armour of the riders was red, blue and yellow; and the horses' heads were shaped like the heads of lions, while from their mouths there came fire and smoke and sulphur. 009:018 By these three plagues a third part of mankind were destroyed-- by the fire and the smoke, and by the sulphur which came from their mouths. 009:019 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails being like serpents, and having heads, and it is with them that they inflict injury. 009:020 But the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues, did not even then repent and leave the things they had made, so as to cease worshipping the demons, and the idols of gold and silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear, nor move. 009:021 Nor did they repent of their murders, their practice of magic, their fornication, or their thefts. 010:001 Then I saw another strong angel coming down from Heaven. He was robed in a cloud, and over his head was the rainbow. His face was like the sun, and his feet resembled pillars of fire. 010:002 In his hand he held a small scroll unrolled; and, planting his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 010:003 he cried out in a loud voice which resembled the roar of a lion. And when he had