1When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
3Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer. He was given much incense, so that he could offer it with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar in front of the throne.
4And the smoke of the incense went up before God out of the angel's hand, together with the prayers of the saints.
5Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it down on the earth. And there were voices, and thunder, and lightning, and an earthquake.
6And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets got ready to sound them.
7The first angel sounded his trumpet. Then came hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were thrown down on the earth. A third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
8The second angel sounded his trumpet. Then something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
9And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10The third angel sounded his trumpet. Then a great star fell from heaven, burning like a lamp, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
11The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
12The fourth angel sounded his trumpet. Then a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them went dark. The day did not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.
13And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the middle of heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, because of the other trumpet blasts of the three angels who are still to sound them!"