Revelation 8

¹ When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

² And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

³ Another angel came and stood by the altar, with a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, to offer it with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne.

⁴ And the smoke of the incense rose, with the prayers of the saints, from the angel’s hand before God.

⁵ Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it onto the earth; and there were thunderclaps, voices, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

⁶ And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

⁷ The first sounded his trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were thrown onto the earth; a third of the earth was burned, a third of the trees was burned, and all the green grass was burned.

⁸ The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; a third of the sea became blood,

⁹ and a third of the creatures in the sea, those that had life, died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

¹⁰ The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch; it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

¹¹ The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died because of the waters, because they had become bitter.

¹² The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them was darkened; the day did not shine for a third of it, and the night likewise.

¹³ Then I looked, and heard an eagle flying through midheaven, saying in a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining trumpet blasts of the three angels who are still going to sound their trumpets.”

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