Revelation 9 And then the fifth agent (messenger) sounded a trumpet, and I saw a star – having fallen from out of the sky (or: heaven) into the Land (earth) – and the key of the well (cistern; shaft; pit) of The Deep was given to him. : (LXX), “darkness {was} up upon (or: over) the Deep, and God’s Spirit was bearing (conducting) Himself over upon the water;” used of “the fountains of the Deep” in Gen. (LXX); of “springs of the Deep” in Deut. - (LXX), “And to Joseph he said, ‘His land is of the blessing... from the springs of the Deep below;’” and in Ps. , “He led them through the Deep, as a horse through the wilderness...” - : : : (LXX), “They that go down to the sea.... these have seen the works of the Lord, and His wonders in The Deep;” Ps. (LXX), “Who dost robe Thyself with light as a garment.... Who covers His chambers with waters; Who makes the clouds His chariot... The Deep, as a garment, is His covering;” Ps. , : ; used in Deut. , “... and all Deeps.... the things continually performing His Word;” Isa. : : : note: the abyss, or, the Deep; that which is very deep so as to be considered bottomless; used in Gen.

JMNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And then the fifth agent (messenger) sounded a trumpet, and I saw a star – having fallen from out of the sky (or: heaven) into the Land (earth) – and the key of the well (cistern; shaft; pit) of The Deep was given to him. [note: the abyss, or, the Deep; that which is very deep so as to be considered bottomless; used in Gen. 1:2 (LXX), “darkness {was} up upon (or: over) the Deep, and God’s Spirit was bearing (conducting) Himself over upon the water;” used of “the fountains of the Deep” in Gen. 8:2 (LXX); of “springs of the Deep” in Deut. 8:7; used in Deut. 33:13 (LXX), “And to Joseph he said, ‘His land is of the blessing... from the springs of the Deep below;’” and in Ps. 104:2-6 (LXX), “Who dost robe Thyself with light as a garment.... Who covers His chambers with waters; Who makes the clouds His chariot... The Deep, as a garment, is His covering;” Ps. 107:23-26 (LXX), “They that go down to the sea.... these have seen the works of the Lord, and His wonders in The Deep;” Ps. 148:7, 8, “... and all Deeps.... the things continually performing His Word;” Isa. 63:13, “He led them through the Deep, as a horse through the wilderness...”] ² And he opened up the well (shaft; pit) of The Deep and smoke ascended out of the well (shaft), as smoke of a great furnace (or: kiln – for smelting, firing earthen ware or baking bread), and the sun and the air were darkened from out of the smoke of the well (or: shaft). ³ Next locusts came out of the smoke [and went] into the Land (earth). And authority (or: the right; permission) was given to them – as the scorpions of the land (or: earth) have authority (permission; license) – ⁴ and yet it was declared to them that they may not be acting unjustly to (be harming, injuring or violating) the enclosed pasture (or: grass) of the Land (earth; soil), nor any green thing, nor any tree, except the humans (the people): those not having the seal (or: imprint) of God upon their foreheads. ⁵ Now this was granted (or: given) to (or: for) them, not that they should be killing them, but rather so that they [= the humans] may be examined (tried as metals by the touchstone; distressed) [for] five months. And their examination [is; was] as the distress (metal testing) of a scorpion whenever it may strike a human. ⁶ And in those days the people (humans) will proceed seeking (searching for; pursuing) death, and will continue by no means (or: under no circumstances) finding it. And they will continue setting their desire to die, and death will continue fleeing (or: escaping) from them. ⁷ Now the representation-effects (resultant likenesses and figures) of the locusts [were] like (similar to) horses having been made ready (or: prepared) unto battle. And upon their heads [were] something like golden wreaths, and their faces [were] as human faces, ⁸ and they were having hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as those of lions. ⁹ And they were having breastplates – as breastplate armor made of iron – and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses continuously running into battle. ¹⁰ And they continue having tails like scorpions, and stings (goads; sharp points), and in their tails [is] their authority (permission; license) to act unjustly to (to harm or injure) the humans [for] five months. ¹¹ They habitually have a King (or One who reigns) upon them: the Agent (or: Messenger) of the Deep. The name for Him in Hebrew [is] Abaddon (Destruction; [note: see Ex. 12:23; in verb form, speaking of Yahweh, in Deut. 11:4; Ps. 5:6; Ps. 9:5; Ps. 9:5; Jer. 15:7]), and in the Greek He has the name Apollyon (Destroyer; A Destroying One; or: One who makes folks lost; [verb form used in Lu. 17:33 and, of Yahweh, in Judah 5]). ¹² The one woe (or: tragedy) passed away. Consider – two woes are yet coming after them. ¹³ And the sixth agent (or: messenger) sounded a trumpet, and I heard one voice from out of the four horns of the golden altar [which is] before God [note: figure of the altar of incense which was in front of the innermost chamber in the Tabernacle; keep in mind its association with prayer], ¹⁴ presently saying to the sixth agent, "Loose the four agents: the ones having been bound upon the great river Euphrates." ¹⁵ And the four agents were loosed – those having been made ready (or: being prepared) unto the hour and day and month and year – so that they may be constantly killing the third of the humans. ¹⁶ Now the number of the troops (armed forces) of the cavalry [was] two vast multitudes of innumerable groups (or: myriads of myriads) – I heard the number of them (or: their number). ¹⁷ And thus I saw the horses in the vision: and the ones sitting upon them habitually having breastplates of Fire, even resembling hyacinth stone, and being divine in character (theios: deity; divinity; divine nature or character; the fire of God; brimstone or sulphur). And the heads of the horses [are] as heads of Lions. And Fire, Smoke and Deity (divine nature and character) continuously issues forth from out of their mouths. ¹⁸ From these three plagues (blows; smitings) the third of the humans were killed – from out of the Fire, and from the Smoke, and from the Deity which is constantly issuing out of their mouths, ¹⁹ for the authority (the right; the permission and license) of the horses exists in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and within them they constantly inflict injustice (harm; injury). ²⁰ And yet the remaining ones (or: the rest) of the humans, those who were not killed in these plagues (or: blows), did not change their mind (change their perceptions or ways of thinking) from out of the works (actions; deeds) of their hands, so that they may not worship the demons (Hellenistic concept and term: = animistic influences) and the idols (forms): the gold ones, and the wooden ones, which are able (or: have power) neither to see nor to hear, nor to walk about. [Ps. 115:4-7; 135:15-17; Dan. 5:23] ²¹ Also, they did not change their mind (attitude and way of thinking) from out of their murders, nor from out of their employment of drugs (or: sorceries; enchantments), nor from out of her prostitutions (fornications), nor from out of their thefts.