Revelation

Revelation 8 ©

1 The seventh seal opened. 2 Seven angels receive seven trumpets. 3 An angel presenteth the prayers of the saints with incense on the golden altar before the throne. 6 Four of the angels sound their trumpets, and great plagues follow each sounding.

1

AND when he had opened the aseventh seal, there was bsilence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

a ch. 5.1.
b Job 4.16. ch. 7.10. Is. 54.13,14. Ps. 119.165.
2

And I saw the cseven dangels which stood before God; and to them were given seven etrumpets.

c ch. 1.4,11; 2; 3; 5.1; 6. v.1. ch. 15.1,7,8; 16.
d ch. 7.1,2; 15.7,8; 8; 11; 16. Mat. 18.10. Lu. 1.19.
e Nu. 10.9,10. 2Ch. 29.25-28. Je. 6.1; 4.19. Am. 3.6,7. Le. 25.9,10.
3

And another angel came and fstood at the altar, having ga golden censer; and there was given unto him hmuch incense, that he should 1offer it with the prayers of all saints upon ithe golden altar which was before the throne.

f Ex. 30.7. 1Ki. 7.50. ch. 5.8; 6.9; 9.13; 14.18. He. 13.10; 9.24; 7.25. Ro. 8.34.
g He. 9.4.
h Mat. 20.28. Ep. 5.2; 1.6,7; 5.25-27.
i Ex. 30.1,3.
4

jAnd the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

j Ex. 30.1,7. Ps. 141.2. Lu. 1.10. Ac. 10.4,31. Is. 58.9; 65.24.
5

And the angel took the censer, kand filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it 2into the earth: land there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

k Eze. 10.2. Lu. 12.49. Mat. 10.34. Je. 23.29; 51.11. Is. 66.6,14-16. De. 32.41-43. Eze. 10.6,7. Le. 16.12.
l ch. 4.5; 11.19; 16.18. Is. 30.30; 24; 34. Ps. 18.13. Je. 25.30. 2Sa. 22.7-9.
6

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

7

The first angel sounded, and there followed mhail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: nand the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

m Ex. 9.24,25. Is. 30.30; 28.2; 29.6; 32.19. Eze. 38.22,23. ch. 16.21. Ps. 11.5,6; 18.13.
n Is. 2.12,13; 40.7. ch. 16.2. v.9,10,12. ch. 9.4. Zec. 13.8,9.
8

And the second angel sounded, oand as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

o Je. 51.25. Da. 7.3. ch. 16.3. Am. 7.4. Ex. 7.17-21.
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And pthe third part of the *creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

p Zec. 13.8. Is. 2.16. ch. 18.19; 16.3. v.7,10,12.
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And the third angel sounded, and there qfell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rrivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

q Is. 14.12-25. Jude 13. ch. 1.20; 9.1; 6.13; 12.4. Is. 14.12; 19.4,8. Ho. 13.15,16. Ex. 7.20,21.
r ch. 16.4.
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And the name of the star is called sWormwood: and the third part of the waters became *wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

s De. 29.18. Am. 6.12; 5.7; 8.10. He. 12.15. Je. 9.15; 23.15. Ex. 15.23. Ru. 1.20.
12

And the fourth angel sounded, tand the third part of uthe 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.

t Is. 13.10. Je. 4.23. Eze. 32.7,8. Joel 2.10. Am. 8.9. Ex. 10.21,23. ch. 16.8,9. Mal. 4.2. 2Pe. 1.19. ch. 1.20. 2Co. 4.4. 2Ti. 3.1-5. 2Th. 2.9-11.
u Mat. 24.29.
13

And I beheld, and heard van angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, wWoe, 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!

v Ps. 103.20. He. 1.14. ch. 1.20; 14.6; 19.17. Am. 3.6,7.
w Am. 9.1,12. ch. 9.12; 11.14.