REV. IX. The fifth midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, y woe, woe, toy the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! CHAP. IX. ch. 9. 12. & 11. 14. a ch. 8. 10. b Lu. 10. 18. ver. 2. 11. ch. 17. 8. & 20. 1. c Joel 2. 2. 10. d Ex. 10. 4. Ju. 7. 12. 1 AND the fifth angel sounded, a ande ver. 10. I saw a star fall from f ch. 6. 6. heaven unto the & 7. 3. earth and to him g was given the key of the b bottomless pit. 2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.* 3 And there came h i k ch. 8. 7. ch. 7. 3. Ex. 12. 23. Ez. 9. 4. ver. 10. ch. 11. 7. ch. 6. 16. Joel 2. 4. m Na. 3. 17. n Da. 7. 8. o Joel 1. 6. trumpet. not h the seal of God in their foreheads. 5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but i that they should be tormented five months and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 6 And in those days shall k men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and m on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their out of the smoke d lo- p Joel 2. 5, teeth were as the tusts upon the earth: 6, 7. It is supposed that and unto them was ver. 2given power, as the scorpions of the earth these verses have power. predict the 4 And it was com- rise and promanded them f that gress of Mothey should not hurt hammed and the g grass of the his succesearth, neither any ing over the green thing, neither Arabians or any tree; but only Saracens. those men which have sors, as rul teeth of lions. 9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was pas the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: The sixth REV. IX. A. D. 96. q ver. 5. 11 And they hadr Ep. 2. 2. a king over them, s ver. 1. which is the angel + That is to of the bottomless pit, say, a dewhose name in the stroyer. Hebrew tongue 25 t ch. 8. 13. Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. 12 t One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes y more hereafter. 13 And the sixth a angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, z 1 ch. 16. 12. Or, at. Da. 7. 10. Ez. 38. 4. ch. 7. 4. Is. 5. 28, 29. b Is. 9. 15. De. 32. 17. 18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their months. 19 For their power is in their mouth, and Ps. 106.37. in their tails: b for 1 Co.10.20. their tails were like e Ps. 115. 4. unto & 135. 15. 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound u in Da. 5. 23. the great river Euf ch. 22. 15. phrates.* 15 And the four The Turks angels were loosed, ver. 14which were prepared entered into fort an hour, and a Persia, and day, and a month, the regions and a year, for to bordering slay the third part of on the men. phrates, & in the eleventh 16 And the num-century, esber of the army y of tablished the horsemen were four sultatwo hundred thousand pies, or thousand : z and in those kingdoms, heard the number of parts. them. serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. 20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,de and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor f of their sorce tered their voices. book. him that liveth for ever and ever, b who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that i there should be time no longer : 7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth and upon the sea upon the earth. 9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, give me the little book, And he said unto me, Take m it, and eat it the Revela-up; and it shall make tion; while thy belly bitter, but 5 And the angel others think it shall be in thy which I saw stand it extends mouth sweet as hothe earth lifted up upon the sea and upon only to the his hand to heaven, of the next former part chapter. ney. little book out of the angel's hand, and ate 10 And I took the witnesses. standing before the n Ez. 3. 3. Ez. 40. 3. c Ez. 40. 17. 11 And he said unto b Nu. 23. 18. me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, d Ps. 79. 1. and kings. cast out. Lu. 21. 24. CHAP. XI. e Da. 8. 10. 1 AND there was f ch. 13. 5. given me a a reed Or, I will like unto a rod and give unto my the angel stood, say-nesses that two witing, b Rise, and mea- they may sure the temple of prophesy. God, and the altar, g ch. 20. 4. and them that wor-h ch. 19. 10. ship therein. i ch. 12. 6. 2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, k Ps. 52. 8. Je. 11. 16. their mouth, and de- 6 These have pow- 7 And when they shall p have finished their testimony, a the beast that ascendeth out of the bottom and measure it not; 12 Ki. 1.10. less pits shall make ford it is given unto Je. 1. 10. & 5. 14. Ho. 6. 5. m Nu.16.29. n Ja. 5. 16. war against them, and shall overcome Ez. 43. 3. them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of t the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, u where also our Lord was cruci Ze. 14. 2. fied. 3 And I will give Ex. 7. 19. power unto my two p Lu. 13. 32. witnesses, g hand q ch. 13. 1. they shall prophesy r ch. 9. 2. a i thousand two hun-. dred and threescore s Da. 7. 21, 9 And they of the days, clothed in sack-t ch. 14. 8. people and kindreds cloth. u He. 13. 12. and tongues and na4 These are the ch. 17. 15. tions shall see their twok olive trees, and bodies y Ps. 79. 2,3. dead the two candlesticks three days and an half, y and two prophets trumpet. hold, the third woe cometh quickly. 15 And m the seVenth angel sounded; and a there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; P and he shall reign for ever and ever. 16 And and the four twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and ch. 14. 7.worshipped God, ch. 3. 4. & 15. 4. ch. 8. 13. 12 And they heard a great voice from & 15. 1, heaven saying unto m ch. 10, 7. them, Come up hi- n Is. 27. 13. ther. And they ascended up to heaven in f a cloud; 8 and P Da. 2. 44. their enemies beheld 9 ch. 4. 4. them. o ch. 12. 10. & 5. 8. & 4. 8. 13 And the same hour h was there a great earthquake, & 16. 5. and i the tenth part of s ch. 19. 6. the city fell, and int ver. 2.9. the earthquake were u ch. 6. 10. slain + of men seven Da. 7.9,10. thousand and the remnant 17 Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast. reigned. 18 t And the nations were angry, and r ch. 1.4. 8. thy wrath is come. and u the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and (that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and then that fear thy name, x small and great; y and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. x ch. 19. 5. & 18. 6. were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of or, heaven. corrupt. 14 The second z ch. 15. 5. woe is past; and be-l 19 And the tem |