When the Lamb broke the aseventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.Rev 5:1; 6:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 2 And I saw athe seven angels who stand before God, and seven btrumpets were given to them.Rev 1:4; 8:6-13; 9:1, 13; 11:151 Cor 15:52; 1 Thess 4:16
3 aAnother angel came and stood at the baltar, holding a cgolden censer; and much dincense was given to him, so that he might 1add it to the eprayers of all the 2saints on the fgolden altar which was before the throne.Lit giveLit holy ones; i.e., God’s peopleRev 7:2Amos 9:1; Rev 6:9Heb 9:4Ex 30:1; Rev 5:8Ex 30:3; Num 4:11; Rev 8:5; 9:13 4 And athe smoke of the incense ascended from the angel’s hand with the prayers of the 1saints before God.See note 2 v 3Ps 141:2 5 Then the angel 1took the 2censer and afilled it with the fire of the altar, and bhurled it to the earth; and there were cpeals of thunder and sounds, and flashes of lightning and an dearthquake.Lit has takenI.e., container to burn incenseLev 16:12Ezek 10:2Ex 19:16; Rev 4:5; 11:19; 16:18Rev 6:12
6 aAnd the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.Rev 8:2
7 The first sounded, and there was ahail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled to the earth; and ba third of the earth was burned up, and ca third of the dtrees were burned up, and all the green egrass was burned up.Ex 9:23ff; Is 28:2; Ezek 38:22; Joel 2:30Zech 13:8, 9; Rev 8:7-12; 9:15, 18; 12:4Rev 9:4
8 The second angel sounded, and something like a great amountain burning with fire was hurled into the sea; and ba third of the csea became blood,Jer 51:25Zech 13:8, 9; Rev 8:7-12; 9:15, 18; 12:4Ex 7:17ff; Rev 11:6; 16:3 9 and aa third of the creatures which were in the sea 1and had life, died; and a third of the bships were destroyed.Lit the ones havingZech 13:8, 9; Rev 8:7-12; 9:15, 18; 12:4Is 2:16
10 The third angel sounded, and a great star afell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a bthird of the rivers and on the csprings of waters.Is 14:12; Rev 6:13; 9:1Zech 13:8, 9; Rev 8:7-12; 9:15, 18; 12:4Rev 14:7; 16:4 11 The star is named Wormwood; and a athird of the waters became bwormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.Zech 13:8, 9; Rev 8:7-12; 9:15, 18; 12:4Jer 9:15; 23:15
12 The fourth angel sounded, and a athird of the bsun, a third of the cmoon, and a dthird of the estars were struck, so that a fthird of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a gthird of it, and the night in the same way.Zech 13:8, 9; Rev 8:7-12; 9:15, 18; 12:4Ex 10:21ff; Is 13:10; Ezek 32:7; Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15; Rev 6:12f
13 Then I looked, and I heard 1an eagle flying in amidheaven, saying with a loud voice, “bWoe, woe, woe to cthose who live on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the dthree angels who are about to sound!”Lit one eagleRev 14:6; 19:17Rev 9:12; 11:14; 12:12Rev 3:10Rev 8:2