Revelation, chapter 8
1: When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven
for about half an hour.
2: Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven
trumpets were given to them.
3: And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden
censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all
the saints upon the golden altar before the throne;
4: and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the
saints from the hand of the angel before God.
5: 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, voices,
flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
6: Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made ready
to blow them.
7: The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail
and fire, mixed with blood, which fell on the earth; and a third of the
earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees were burnt up, and all green
grass was burnt up.
8: The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great
mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea;
9: 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.
10: 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 fountains of water.
11: The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters
became wormwood, and many men died of the water, because it was made bitter.
12: 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 was darkened; a third of the day was kept from shining,
and likewise a third of the night.
13: Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice,
as it flew in midheaven, "Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth,
at the blasts of the other trumpets which the three angels are about to
blow!"