啟示錄 9

¹第五位天使吹號，我就看見一個星從天落到地上，有無底坑的鑰匙賜給它。Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.

²它開了無底坑，便有煙從坑裡往上冒，好像大火爐的煙；日頭和天空都因這煙昏暗了。The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

³有蝗蟲從煙中出來，飛到地上；有能力賜給牠們，好像地上蠍子的能力一樣，And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

⁴並且吩咐牠們說，不可傷害地上的草和各樣青物，並一切樹木，惟獨要傷害額上沒有　神印記的人。They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

⁵但不許蝗蟲害死他們，只叫他們受痛苦五個月。這痛苦就像蠍子螫人的痛苦一樣。The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

⁶在那些日子，人要求死，決不得死；願意死，死卻遠避他們。In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

⁷蝗蟲的形狀，好像預備出戰的馬一樣，頭上戴的好像金冠冕，臉面好像男人的臉面，And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads; and their faces were like the faces of men.

⁸頭髮像女人的頭髮，牙齒像獅子的牙齒。They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.

⁹胸前有甲，好像鐵甲。牠們翅膀的聲音，好像許多車馬奔跑上陣的聲音。They also had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

¹⁰有尾巴像蠍子，尾巴上的毒鉤能傷人五個月。They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months.

¹¹有無底坑的使者作牠們的王，按著希伯來話，名叫亞巴頓，希臘話，名叫亞玻倫。They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.

¹²第一樣災禍過去了，還有兩樣災禍要來。The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still to follow.

¹³第六位天使吹號，我就聽見有聲音從　神面前金壇的四角出來，Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God

¹⁴吩咐那吹號的第六位天使，說：「把那捆綁在幼發拉底大河的四個使者釋放了。」saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

¹⁵那四個使者就被釋放；他們原是預備好了，到某年某月某日某時，要殺人的三分之一。So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

¹⁶馬軍有二萬萬；他們的數目我聽見了。And the number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.

¹⁷我在異象中看見那些馬和騎馬的，騎馬的胸前有甲如火，與紫瑪瑙並硫磺。馬的頭好像獅子頭，有火、有煙、有硫磺從馬的口中出來。Now the horses and riders in my vision looked like this: The riders had breastplates the colors of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and sulfur.

¹⁸口中所出來的火與煙並硫磺，這三樣災殺了人的三分之一。A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths.

¹⁹這馬的能力是在口裡和尾巴上；因這尾巴像蛇，並且有頭用以害人。For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.

²⁰其餘未曾被這些災所殺的人仍舊不悔改自己手所做的，還是去拜鬼魔和那些不能看、不能聽、不能走，金、銀、銅、木、石的偶像，Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.

²¹又不悔改他們那些凶殺、邪術、姦淫、偷竊的事。Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.