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, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God's people, on the golden altar in front of the throne.4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God's people, went up before God from the angel's hand.5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky 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 turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!"

1 Et cum aperuisset sigillum septimum, factum est silentium in clo, quasi media hora. 2 Et vidi septem angelos stantes in conspectu Dei : et dat sunt illis septem tub. 3 Et alius angelus venit, et stetit ante altare habens thuribulum aureum : et data sunt illi incensa multa, ut daret de orationibus sanctorum omnium super altare aureum, quod est ante thronum Dei. 4 Et ascendit fumus incensorum de orationibus sanctorum de manu angeli coram Deo. 5 Et accepit angelus thuribulum, et implevit illud de igne altaris, et misit in terram : et facta sunt tonitrua, et voces, et fulgura, et terrmotus magnus. 6 Et septem angeli, qui habebant septem tubas, prparaverunt se ut tuba canerent. 7 Et primus angelus tuba cecinit, et facta est grando, et ignis, mista in sanguine, et missum est in terram, et tertia pars terr combusta est, et tertia pars arborum concremata est, et omne fnum viride combustum est. 8 Et secundus angelus tuba cecinit : et tamquam mons magnus igne ardens missus est in mare, et facta est tertia pars maris sanguis, 9 et mortua est tertia pars creatur eorum, qu habebant animas in mari, et tertia pars navium interiit. 10 Et tertius angelus tuba cecinit : et cecidit de clo stella magna, ardens tamquam facula, et cecidit in tertiam partem fluminum, et in fontes aquarum : 11 et nomen stell dicitur Absinthium, et facta est tertia pars aquarum in absinthium ; et multi hominum mortui sunt de aquis, quia amar fact sunt. 12 Et quartus angelus tuba cecinit : et percussa est tertia pars solis, et tertia pars lun, et tertia pars stellarum, ita ut obscuraretur tertia pars eorum, et diei non luceret pars tertia, et noctis similiter. 13 Et vidi, et audivi vocem unius aquil volantis per medium cli dicentis voce magna : V, v, v habitantibus in terra de ceteris vocibus trium angelorum, qui erant tuba canituri.