1 When the Lamb openeduch. 5:1; 6:1 the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angelsvLuke 1:19 who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 3 And another angel came and stoodwAmos 9:1 at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer withxch. 5:8 the prayers of all the saints onych. 9:13; Ex. 30:1, 3 the golden altar before the throne, 4 andz[Ps. 141:2] the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. 5 Then the angel took the censer andaLev. 16:12 filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, andb[Ps. 18:7, 8] there were peals ofcSee ch. 4:5 thunder, rumblings,1Or voices, or sounds flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
6 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.
7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followeddEx. 9:23, 24; Ps. 18:13; Ezek. 38:22 hail andeJoel 2:30 fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And afver. 8-12; ch. 9:15, 18; 12:4; [Zech. 13:8, 9] third of the earth was burned up, and a third ofgch. 9:4; Isa. 2:13 the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something likehJer. 51:25; [Mark 11:23] a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the seaich. 11:6; [Ex. 7:17, 19] became blood. 9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third ofjIsa. 2:16 the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, andkch. 9:1; [Isa. 14:12] a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and onlch. 14:7; 16:4 the springs of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the watersmDeut. 29:18; Jer. 9:15; 23:15 became wormwood, and many people died from the water,n[Ex. 15:23] because it had been made bitter.
12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third ofo[Ex. 10:21-23; Isa. 13:10; 30:26] the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead,p[ch. 9:12; 11:14] “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow! ”