New American Standard Bible 1995

Revelation 9:10-19

10They have tails like 1scorpions, and stings; and in their 2tails is their power to hurt men for 3five months. 11They have as king over them, the angel of the 4abyss; his name in 5Hebrew is 6 7Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name 8Apollyon.

12 9The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

13Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard 10a voice from the 11four 12horns of the 13golden altar which is before God, 14one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the 14four angels who are bound at the 15great river Euphrates.” 15And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were 16released, so that they would kill a 17third of 18mankind. 16The number of the armies of the horsemen was 19two hundred million; 20I heard the number of them. 17And 21this is how I saw 22in the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of 23 24brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and 25out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and 26 27brimstone. 18A 28third of 29mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the 30fire and the smoke and the 31brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths. 19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

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Notes

1. Revelation 9:10 2 Chr 10:11, 14; Ezek 2:6; Rev 9:3, 5 ↩
2. Revelation 9:10 Rev 9:19 ↩
3. Revelation 9:10 Rev 9:5 ↩
4. Revelation 9:11 Luke 8:31; Rev 9:1, 2 ↩
5. Revelation 9:11 John 5:2; Rev 16:16 ↩
6. Revelation 9:11 I.e. destruction ↩
7. Revelation 9:11 Job 26:6; 28:22; 31:12; Ps 88:11 mg; Prov 15:11 ↩
8. Revelation 9:11 I.e. destroyer ↩
9. Revelation 9:12 Rev 8:13; 11:14 ↩
10. Revelation 9:13 Lit one voice ↩
11. Revelation 9:13 Two early mss do not contain four ↩
12. Revelation 9:13 Ex 30:2f, 10 ↩
13. Revelation 9:13 Rev 8:3 ↩
14. Revelation 9:14 Rev 7:1 ↩
15. Revelation 9:14 Gen 15:18; Deut 1:7; Josh 1:4; Rev 16:12 ↩
16. Revelation 9:15 Rev 20:7 ↩
17. Revelation 9:15 Rev 8:7; 9:18 ↩
18. Revelation 9:15 Gr anthropoi ↩
19. Revelation 9:16 Rev 5:11 ↩
20. Revelation 9:16 Rev 7:4 ↩
21. Revelation 9:17 Lit thus I saw ↩
22. Revelation 9:17 Dan 8:2; 9:21 ↩
23. Revelation 9:17 I.e. burning sulphur ↩
24. Revelation 9:17 Rev 9:18; 14:10; 19:20; 20:10; 21:8 ↩
25. Revelation 9:17 Rev 11:5 ↩
26. Revelation 9:17 I.e. burning sulphur ↩
27. Revelation 9:17 Rev 9:18; 14:10; 19:20; 20:10; 21:8 ↩
28. Revelation 9:18 Rev 8:7; 9:15 ↩
29. Revelation 9:18 Gr anthropoi ↩
30. Revelation 9:18 Rev 9:17 ↩
31. Revelation 9:18 I.e. burning sulphur ↩

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