Revelation 9:12

Revelation 9:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
• New International Version (NIV)The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
• New King James Version (NKJV)One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.

Context of Revelation 9:12

10They have tails like scorpions, and stingers; and in their tails is their power to hurt people for five months. 11They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss (the bottomless pit); in Hebrew his name is Abaddon (destruction), and in Greek he is called Apollyon (destroyer-king). The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things. 13Then the sixth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I heard a solitary voice from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God, 14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

Revelation 9:12 word by word

ἡ οὐαὶ ἡ μία ἀπῆλθεν· ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται ἔτι δύο οὐαὶ μετὰ ταῦτα.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Oneὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Oneεἷςheis · oneG1520
• woeοὐαίouai · woe!G3759
• is pastἀπέρχομαιaperchomai · to go awayG565
• beholdὁράωhoraō · to see: seeG3708
• there comeἔρχομαιerchomai · to come/goG2064
• twoδύοduo · twoG1417
• moreἔτιeti · stillG2089
• hereafterμετάmeta · with/afterG3326
• ·οὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778

Cross-references for Revelation 9:12

• Revelation 9:1Then the fifth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I saw a star (angelic being) that had fallen from heaven to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit (abyss) was given to him (the star-angel).
• Revelation 9:13Then the sixth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I heard a solitary voice from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God,
• Revelation 8:13Then I looked, and I heard a solitary eagle flying in midheaven [for all to see], saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe [great wrath is coming] to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpets which the three angels are about to sound [announcing ever greater judgments]!”
• Revelation 11:14The second woe is past; behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

Commentaries on Revelation 9:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12One wo is past - That is, the wo or desolation by the symbolical scorpions. There came two woes more - In the trumpets of the sixth and seventh angels.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12One woe is past - The woe referred to in Revelation 9:1-11. In Revelation 8:13 three woes are mentioned which were to occur successively, and which were to embrace the whole of the period comprised in the seven seals and the seven trumpets. Under the last of the seals we have considered four successive periods, referring to events connected with the downfall of the Western empire; and then we have found one important event worthy of a place in noticing…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-12The fifth trumpet is the first of the three terrors (Revelation 8:13). It brings a judgment of locusts from the bottomless pit, a place of horror. Ancient cultures thought the ocean depths, or the Abyss, was a home for demonic forces (see study note on Genesis 1:2).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. Greek, "The one woe." hereafter--Greek, "after these things." I agree with Alford and De Burgh, that these locusts from the abyss refer to judgments about to fall on the ungodly immediately before Christ's second advent. None of the interpretations which regard them as past, are satisfactory. Joe 1:2-7; 2:1-11, is strictly parallel and expressly refers (Joe 2:11) to THE DAY OF THE Lord great and very terrible: Joe 2:10 gives the portents accompanying…Read the comment

Topics related to Revelation 9:12

• Trumpet

In the dictionaries

• Abaddon
• Angel
• Authority in Religion
• Government
• Revelation of John

Commentaries on Revelation 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings