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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Revelation 8 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/revelation/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/revelation/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Revelation 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../revelation/7.htm" title="Revelation 7">◄</a> Revelation 8 <a href="../revelation/9.htm" title="Revelation 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/revelation/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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, rumblings,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or voices, or sounds">a</a></sup></span> flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.</p> <p class="heading">The Seven Trumpets</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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 springs of water. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The name of the star is Wormwood.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Wormwood is the name of a plant and of the bitter-tasting extract derived from it">b</a></sup></span> A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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 might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>voices</i>, or <i>sounds</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Wormwood</i> is the name of a plant and of the bitter-tasting extract derived from it<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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