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The Seventh Seal—the Trumpets

¹ When He (the Lamb) broke open the ^(C1)seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour in awe of God's impending judgment. ^(VR1)2 Then I saw ^(C1)the seven angels who stand before God, and seven ^(F1)(C2)trumpets were given to them.

^3 (C1)Another angel came and stood at the ^(C2)altar. He had a ^(C3)golden ^(F1)censer, and much ^(F2)(C4)incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the ^(C4)prayers of all the saints (God's people) on the ^(C5)golden altar in front of the throne. ^(VR1)4 And ^(C1)the smoke and fragrant aroma of the incense, with the prayers of the saints (God's people), ascended before God from the angel's hand.⁵ So the angel took the censer and ^(C1)filled it with fire from the altar, and ^(C2)hurled it to the earth; and there were ^(C3)peals of thunder and loud rumblings and sounds and flashes of lightning and an ^(C4)earthquake. ^(VR1)

^6 (C1)Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them initiating the judgments.

⁷ The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there was a storm of ^(C1)hail and fire, mixed with blood, and it was hurled to the earth; and ^(C2)a third of the earth was burned up, and ^(C2)a third of the ^(C3)trees were burned up, and all the green ^(C3)grass was burned up. ^(VR1)

⁸ The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great ^(C1)mountain blazing with fire was hurled into the sea; and a ^(C2)third of the ^(C3)sea was turned to blood; ^(VR1)9 and ^(C1)a third of the living creatures that were in the sea died, and a third of the ^(C2)ships were destroyed.

¹⁰ The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star ^(C1)fell from heaven, burning like a torch flashing across the sky, and it fell on a ^(C2)third of the rivers and on the ^(C3)springs of fresh waters.¹¹ The name of the star is ^(F1)Wormwood; and a ^(C1)third of the waters became ^(C2)wormwood, and many people died from the waters, because they had become bitter (toxic).

¹² Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a ^(C1)third of the ^(C2)sun and a third of the ^(C2)moon and a ^(C1)third of the ^(C2)stars were struck, so that a ^(C1)third of them would be darkened and a ^(C1)third of the daylight would not shine, and the night in the same way would not shine. ^(VR1)

¹³ Then I looked, and I heard a solitary eagle flying in ^(F1)(C1)midheaven for all to see, saying with a loud voice, "^(F2)(C2)Woe, woe, woe great wrath is coming to ^(C3)those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpets which the ^(C4)three angels are about to sound announcing ever greater judgments!"