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Contemporary English Version

Revelation 9:12

The first horrible thing has now happened! But wait. Two more horrible things will happen soon.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Trumpet;   The Topic Concordance - Seals;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Mahometanism;   Order;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Plagues of Egypt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers;   Witness;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Abaddon;   Locusts;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Revelation of John:;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this.
King James Version (1611)
One woe is past, and behold there come two woes more hereafter.
King James Version
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
New American Standard Bible
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
New Century Version
The first trouble is past; there are still two other troubles that will come.
THE MESSAGE
The first doom is past. Two dooms yet to come.
English Standard Version
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
Berean Standard Bible
The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still to follow.
Complete Jewish Bible
The first woe has passed, but there are still two woes to come.
Darby Translation
The first woe has passed. Behold, there come yet two woes after these things.
Easy-to-Read Version
The first terror is now past. There are still two other terrors to come.
Geneva Bible (1587)
One woe is past, and beholde, yet two woes come after this.
George Lamsa Translation
The first woe is passed; and behold, two more woes follow after.
Good News Translation
The first horror is over; after this there are still two more horrors to come.
Lexham English Bible
The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
Literal Translation
The first woe has departed; behold, after these things come two woes.
Amplified Bible
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
American Standard Version
The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.
Bible in Basic English
The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.
Hebrew Names Version
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
International Standard Version
The first catastrophe is over. After these things there are still two more catastrophes to come.Revelation 8:13;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
One woe hath gone. Behold, two woes yet come after it.
Murdock Translation
One woe is past; lo, there come yet two woes after them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
One woe is past, & beholde two woes come yet after this.
English Revised Version
The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.
World English Bible
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
One wo is past: behold there come yet two woes after this.
Weymouth's New Testament
The first woe is past; two other woes have still to come.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
O wo is passid, and lo! yit comen twei woes.
Update Bible Version
The first Woe is past: look, there come yet two Woes hereafter.
Webster's Bible Translation
One woe is past; [and] behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
New English Translation
The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things!
New King James Version
One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.
New Living Translation
The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming!
New Life Bible
The first time of trouble is past. But see, there are two more times of trouble coming after this.
New Revised Standard
The first woe has passed. There are still two woes to come.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The first, Woe, hath passed away, lo! there come, yet, two, Woes, after these things.
Douay-Rheims Bible
One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.
Revised Standard Version
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
One woo is past and beholde two wooes come after this.
Young's Literal Translation
The first wo did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
One wo is past, and beholde two woes come yet after this.
Mace New Testament (1729)
One wo is past, and now two woes are to follow.
Simplified Cowboy Version
After this first horror is complete, there are still two more to come.

Contextual Overview

1 When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star fall from the sky to earth. It was given the key to the tunnel that leads down to the deep pit. 2 As it opened the tunnel, smoke poured out like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air turned dark because of the smoke. 3 Locusts came out of the smoke and covered the earth. They were given the same power that scorpions have. 4 The locusts were told not to harm the grass on the earth or any plant or any tree. They were to punish only those people who did not have God's mark on their foreheads. 5 The locusts were allowed to make them suffer for five months, but not to kill them. The suffering they caused was like the sting of a scorpion. 6 In those days people will want to die, but they will not be able to. They will hope for death, but it will escape from them. 7 These locusts looked like horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore something like gold crowns, and they had human faces. 8 Their hair was like a woman's long hair, and their teeth were like those of a lion. 9 On their chests they wore armor made of iron. Their wings roared like an army of horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle. 10 Their tails were like a scorpion's tail with a stinger that had the power to hurt someone for five months.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

woe: Revelation 9:1, Revelation 9:2

two: Revelation 9:13-21, Revelation 8:13, Revelation 11:14

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 2:10 - lamentations Revelation 12:12 - Woe

Cross-References

Genesis 9:17
The rainbow will be the sign of that solemn promise.
Genesis 9:23
Shem and Japheth put a robe over their shoulders and walked backwards into the tent. Without looking at their father, they placed it over his body.
Genesis 9:25
he said, "I now put a curse on Canaan! He will be the lowest slave of his brothers.
Genesis 9:26
I ask the Lord my God to bless Shem and make Canaan his slave.
Genesis 9:28
Noah lived three hundred fifty years after the flood
Exodus 12:13
The blood on the houses will show me where you live, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. Then you won't be bothered by the terrible disasters I will bring on Egypt.
Exodus 13:16
This ceremony will serve the same purpose as a sign on your hand or on your forehead to tell how the Lord 's mighty power rescued us from Egypt.
Joshua 2:12
Please promise me in the Lord 's name that you will be as kind to my family as I have been to you. Do something to show

Gill's Notes on the Bible

One woe is past,.... One of the three woe trumpets, the first of them; that is, in the vision which John had of it, not the thing itself designed by it:

[and] behold there come two woes more hereafter; under the blowing of the sixth and seventh trumpets.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

One woe is past - The woe referred to in Revelation 9:1-11. In Revelation 8:13 three woes are mentioned which were to occur successively, and which were to embrace the whole of the period comprised in the seven seals and the seven trumpets. Under the last of the seals we have considered four successive periods, referring to events connected with the downfall of the Western empire; and then we have found one important event worthy of a place in noticing the things which would permanently affect the destiny of the world - the rise, the character, and the conquests of the Saracens. This was referred to by the first woe-trumpet. We enter now on the consideration of the second. This occupies the remainder of the chapter, and in illustrating it the same method will be pursued as heretofore: first, to explain the literal meaning of the words, phrases, and symbols; and then to inquire what events in history, if any, succeeding the former, occurred, which would correspond with the language used.

And, behold, there come two woes more hereafter - Two momentous and important events that will be attended with sorrow to mankind. It cannot be intended that there would be no other evils that would visit mankind; but the eye, in glancing along the future, rested on these as having a special pre-eminence in affecting the destiny of the church and the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 9:12. One wo is past — That is, the wo or desolation by the symbolical scorpions.

There came two woes more — In the trumpets of the sixth and seventh angels.


 
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