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Chapter 8 |
| 1 | And when he
had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of
half an hour. |
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2 | And I saw the seven angels which stood before God;
and to them were given seven trumpets. |
| 3 | And another angel came and
stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much
incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden
altar which was before the throne. |
| 4 | And the smoke of the incense,
which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the
angel's hand. |
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5 | And the angel took the censer, and filled it with
fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and
thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. |
| 6 | And the seven
angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. |
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The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood,
and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up,
and all green grass was burnt up. |
| 8 | And the second angel sounded,
and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and
the third part of the sea became blood; |
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9 | And the third part of the
creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the
ships were destroyed. |
| 10 | And the third angel sounded, and there fell
a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third
part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; |
| 11 | And the name
of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became
wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
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| 12 | And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the 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. |
| 13 | And I beheld, and heard an angel flying
through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, 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! |
