When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
heaven for about half an hour. Then I saw the seven angels who
stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. And
another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and
he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the
saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the
incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the
hand of the angel. Then the angel took the censer and filled it
with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were
peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an
earthquake.
Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow
them.
The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and
fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a
third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were
burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great
mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third
of the sea became blood. A third of the living creatures in the sea
died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from
heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers
and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A
third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the
water, because it had been made bitter.
The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was
struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that
a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day
might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as
it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the
earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels
are about to blow!”
