| Chapter 8
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1 | And when
he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of
half an hour. |
2 |
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven
trumpets. |
3 | And
another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there
was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of
all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. |
4 | And the smoke of the incense,
which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the
angel's hand. |
5 |
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast
it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and
an earthquake. |
6 |
And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to
sound. |
7 | The
first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and
they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and
all green grass was burnt up. |
8 | And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain
burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became
blood; |
9 | And the
third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the
third part of the ships were destroyed. |
10 | And the third angel sounded, and there fell a
great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third
part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; |
11 | And the name of the star is
called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men
died of the waters, because they were made bitter. |
12 | And the fourth angel sounded, and
the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the
third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day
shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. |
13 | And I beheld, and heard an angel
flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to
the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the
three angels, which are yet to sound! |
