1 En toe die vyfde engel blaas, sien ek 'n ster wat uit die hemel op die aarde geval het, en aan hom is die sleutel van die put van die afgrond gegee.

2 En hy het die put van die afgrond oopgemaak, en daar het rook opgekom uit die put soos rook van 'n groot oond, en die son en die lug is deur die rook van die put verduister.

3 En uit die rook het daar sprinkane uitgekom op die aarde, en aan hulle is mag gegee soos die skerpioene van die aarde mag het.

4 En aan hulle is gesê dat hulle nie die gras van die aarde of enige groenigheid of enige boom moet beskadig nie, maar net alleen die mense wat die seël van God nie op hulle voorhoofde het nie.

5 En dit is aan hulle gegee, nie om hulle dood te maak nie, maar dat hulle vyf maande lank gepynig sou word; en hulle pyniging was soos die pyniging van 'n skerpioen wanneer hy 'n mens steek.

6 En in die dae sal die mense die dood soek en dit nie vind nie; en hulle sal verlang om te sterwe, en die dood sal vir hulle wegvlug.

7 En die voorkoms van die sprinkane was soos die van perde wat vir die oorlog toegerus is, en op hulle koppe was iets soos krone wat net soos goud gelyk het, en hulle gesigte was soos die gesigte van mense.

8 En hulle het hare gehad soos vrouehare, en hulle tande was soos die van leeus.

9 En hulle het borsharnasse gehad soos van yster, en die gedruis van hulle vlerke was soos die gedruis van baie strydwaens met perde wat opruk na die oorlog.

10 En hulle het sterte gehad soos die van skerpioene, en daar was angels in hulle sterte, en hulle mag was om die mense vyf maande lank skade aan te doen.

11 En hulle het as koning oor hulle die engel van die afgrond; sy naam in Hebreeus is Ab ddon, en in Grieks het hy die naam van Apollion.

12 Die een wee het verbygegaan; hierna kom daar nog twee weë.

13 En die sesde engel het geblaas, en ek het 'n stem gehoor uit die vier horings van die goue altaar wat voor God is,

14 en die het aan die sesde engel met die basuin gesê: Maak die vier engele los wat gebind is by die groot rivier, die Eufraat.

15 Toe is die vier engele losgemaak wat gereed gehou was vir die uur en dag en maand en jaar, om 'n derde van die mense dood te maak.

16 En die getal van die leërs van perderuiters was twee maal tien duisend maal tien duisend; en ek het hulle getal gehoor.

17 En so het ek in hierdie gesig die perde gesien en die wat op hulle sit, met vuurrooi en blou en swawelgeel borsharnasse. En die koppe van die perde was soos leeukoppe, en uit hulle bekke het vuur en rook en swawel uitgegaan.

18 Deur hierdie drie plae is 'n derde van die mense gedood, deur die vuur en deur die rook en deur die swawel wat uit hulle bekke uitgegaan het;

19 want hulle mag is in hulle bek en in hulle sterte; want hulle sterte is soos slange en het koppe, en daarmee rig hulle skade aan.

20 En die orige mense wat deur hierdie plae nie gedood is nie, het hulle nie bekeer van die werke van hul hande, om die duiwels te aanbid, of die afgode van goud en silwer en koper en klip en hout wat nie kan sien of hoor of loop nie.

21 En hulle het hul nie bekeer van hul moorde en hul towerye en hul hoerery en hul diefstalle nie.

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.