Apocalipse 9

1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. 2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a*9:2 TR adds "great" burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit. 3 Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads. 5 They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person. 6 In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

7 The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces. 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of many chariots and horses rushing to war. 10 They have tails like those of scorpions, with stingers. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months. 11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon",*9:11 "Abaddon" is a Hebrew word that means "ruin", "destruction", or "the place of destruction" but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon".*9:11 "Apollyon" means "Destroyer".

12 The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.

13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"

15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind. 16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million.*9:16 literally, "ten thousands of ten thousands" I heard the number of them. 17 Thus I saw the horses in the vision and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur. 18 By these three plagues, one third of mankind was killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they harm.

20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can’t see, hear, or walk. 21 They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries,*9:21 The word for "sorceries" (pharmakeia) also implies the use of potions, poisons, and drugs their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

1 Ā, ka whakatangi te rima o ngā anahera, ā, ka kite ahau i tētahi whetū nō te rangi kua taka iho ki te whenua. Ā, ka hoatu ki a ia te kī o te poka tōrere. 2 Ā, uakina ana e ia te poka tōrere; ā, ka puta ake he paoa i te poka, ānō he paoa nō tētahi kāpura nui; ā, pōuri iho te rā me te rangi i te paoa o te poka. 3 Ā, ka puta mai i te paoa he māwhitiwhiti ki runga ki te whenua; i hoatu hoki ki a rātou he kaha, he pērā me te kaha o ngā kopiona o te whenua. 4 I kōrerotia hoki ki a rātou kia kaua e kino i a rātou te tarutaru o te whenua, tētahi mea matomato rānei, tētahi rākau rānei; ko ngā tāngata anake kāhore nei te hīri a te Atua i ō rātou rae. 5 I tukua anō hoki ki a rātou kia kaua e whakamate i ērā, engari me whakamamae kia rima rā anō ngā marama; ā, ko tā rātou whakamamae kia pērā me te whakamamae a te kopiona, ina wero i te tangata. 6 Ā, i aua rā tērā ngā tāngata e rapu i te mate, ā, e kore rawa e kitea; e hiahia anō rātou kia mate, heoi, ka oma te mate i a rātou.

7 Nā, ko te waihanga o ngā māwhitiwhiti rite tonu ki ngā hōiho kua oti te whakanoho mō te pakanga. Ā, i runga i ō rātou mātenga he mea e rite ana ki ngā karauna kōura, ā, ko ō rātou kanohi ānō he kanohi tāngata. 8 He makawe anō tō rātou rite tonu ki te makawe wahine, ko ō rātou niho me te mea nō te raiona. 9 He pukupuku hoki ō rātou, ānō he pukupuku rino; ā, ko te haruru o ō rātou pākau, ānō ko te haruru o ngā hāriata, o ngā hōiho maha e rere ana ki te tatauranga. 10 He hiku ō rātou pērā i ō ngā kopiona, he wero hoki; ā, kei ō rātou hiku tō rātou kaha ki te whakamamae tāngata mō ngā marama e rima. 11 He kīngi anō tō rātou, ko te anahera o te poka tōrere; ko tōna ingoa i te reo Hiperu ko Aparona, ā, i te reo Kariki ko Aporiona tōna ingoa.

12 Kua pahemo te tuatahi o ngā auē; nā, e rua ake ngā auē kei te haere mai i muri.

13 Nā, ka whakatangi te ono o ngā anahera, ā, ka rongo ahau ki tētahi reo, e ahu mai ana i ngā haona e whā o te āta kōura i te aroaro o te Atua, 14 e mea ana ki te ono o ngā anahera, kei a ia nei te tētere, "Wetekina ngā anahera tokowhā e here rā i te awa nui, i Uparati." 15 Nā, ka wetekina aua anahera tokowhā, kua noho rite noa ake nei mō te hāora, me te rā, me te marama, me te tau, e whakamate ai rātou i te wāhi tuatoru o ngā tāngata. 16 Ā, ko te tokomaha o ngā taua o ngā hōia eke hōiho e rua tekau mano ngā tekau mano; i rongo hoki ahau ki tō rātou tokomaha.

17 Ko tāku tēnei i kite ai i ahau e titiro matakite ana, ko ngā hōiho me ngā kainoho i runga he pukupuku o rātou, ānō he ahi, he hakiniti, he whānāriki. Nā, ko ngā upoko o ngā hōiho, ānō he upoko raiona; e puta mai ana hoki i ō rātou māngai he kāpura, he paoa, he whānāriki. 18 Nā ēnei mate e toru i patu te wāhi tuatoru o ngā tāngata, nā te kāpura, nā te paoa, nā te whānāriki, i puta mai i ō rātou māngai. 19 Ko te kaha hoki o ngā hōiho kei ō rātou māngai, kei ō rātou waero; ko ō rātou waero koia anō kei te nākahi, he upoko ō rātou; ko ā rātou mea tūkino ēnei.

20 Nā, ko ērā atu tāngata, kīhai nei i whakamatea e ēnei mate, kāhore rātou i rīpenetā ki ngā mahi a ō rātou ringaringa, kīhai hoki i mutu tō rātou koropiko ki ngā rēwera, ki ngā whakapakoko kōura, hiriwa, parāhi, kōhatu, rākau rānei; ki ngā mea kāhore nei e kite, kāhore e rongo, kāhore e hāereere. 21 Kāhore anō hoki rātou i rīpenetā ki ā rātou kōhuru, ki ā rātou mahi mākutu, ki ā rātou moepuku, ki ā rātou tāhae.