1 O quinto anjo tocou a trombeta. Vi uma estrela caída do céu na terra, e foi-lhe dada a chave do poço do abismo.
2 Ele abriu o poço do abismo; do poço subiu um fumo como o fumo duma grande fornalha, e o sol e o ar escureceram-se com o fumo do poço.
3 Do fumo saíram gafanhotos para a terra; e foi-lhes dado poder como têm poder os escorpiões da terra.
4 Foi-lhes ordenado que não fizessem dano à erva da terra, nem a qualquer coisa verde, nem a árvore alguma, mas somente àqueles homens que não têm o selo de Deus nas suas testas.
5 Foi-lhes permitido, não que os matassem, mas somente que os atormentassem cinco meses; e o seu tormento era como o tormento do escorpião, quando fere ao homem.
6 Naqueles dias os homens procurarão a morte, e não a acharão; desejarão morrer, mas a morte foge deles.
7 As figuras dos gafanhotos eram semelhantes a cavalos preparados para a guerra; sobre as suas cabeças tinham umas como coroas semelhantes ao ouro, e os seus rostos eram como rostos de homens,
8 tinham os cabelos como os cabelos das mulheres, e os seus dentes eram como os dentes dos leões;
9 e tinham couraças como couraças de ferro, e o estrondo das suas asas era como o estrondo de carros de muitos cavalos que correm ao combate.
10 Têm caudas semelhantes às dos escorpiões, e aguilhões; e nas suas caudas acha-se o seu poder de fazer dano aos homens cinco meses.
11 Eles têm sobre si como rei o anjo do abismo, chamado em hebraico Abadom, e em grego Apoliom.
12 O primeiro ai já passou; eis que vêm ainda dois ais depois destas coisas.
13 O sexto anjo tocou a trombeta. Ouvi uma voz que saía dos quatro chifres do altar de ouro, que está diante de Deus,
14 a qual dizia ao sexto anjo que tinha a trombeta: Solta os quatro anjos que estão atados junto ao grande rio Eufrates.
15 Foram soltos os quatros anjos que haviam sido preparados para a hora e dia e mês e ano, a fim de matarem a terça parte dos homens.
16 O número das tropas de cavalaria era de duas miríades de miríades; eu ouvi o número deles.
17 Vi assim na visão os cavalos, e os que estavam montados sobre eles, os quais tinham couraças de fogo, de jacinto e de enxofre; as cabeças dos cavalos eram como as cabeças de leões, e das suas bocas saíam fogo, fumo e enxofre.
18 Por estas três pragas: pelo fogo, pelo fumo e pelo enxofre, que saíam das suas bocas, foi morta a terça parte dos homens.
19 Pois o poder dos cavalos está nas suas bocas, e nas suas caudas; porque as suas caudas são semelhantes a serpentes, e têm cabeças; e com elas causam dano.
20 Os outros homens que não foram mortos por estas pragas, não se arrependeram das obras das suas mãos, para que não adorassem aos demônios, e aos ídolos de ouro, de prata, de cobre, de pedra e de pau, que nem podem ver, nem ouvir, nem andar;
21 e não se arrependeram dos seus homicídios, nem das suas feitiçarias, nem da sua fornicação, nem dos seus furtos.
1 And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.
2 And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.
3 And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth; and power was given them, like the power of scorpions.
4 And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows.
5 And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.
6 And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.
7 And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breastplates like iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of carriages, like an army of horses rushing to the fight.
10 And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.
11 They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.
12 The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.
13 And at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel who had the horn, Make free the four angels who are chained at the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.
16 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears.
17 And so I saw the horses in the vision, and those who were seated on them, having breastplates of fire and glass and of burning stone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and a smell of burning.
18 By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.
20 And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:
21 And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.