Olphong 9

1 Puencawn a panga loh a ueng vaengah aisi pakhat vaan lamkah diklai la tla. A taengah tangrhom dung kah tangrhom cabi te a paek. (Abyssos g12)

So the fifth angel trumpeted, and I saw a ‘star’ that had fallen out of the sky to the earth. And to him was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. (Abyssos g12)

2 Te dongah tangrhom dung kah tangrhom te a ong tih tangrhom lamkah a khuu te hmai khuu la muep ha thoeng. Te vaengah tangrhom khuu loh khomik neh yilh te a hmuep sak. (Abyssos g12)

So he opened the shaft of the Abyss and smoke went up out of the shaft, like the smoke of a burning furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the shaft. (Abyssos g12)

3 Te phoeiah hmaikhu lamkah tangboeng te lai la ha thoeng. Te vaengah amih te diklai kah saelkhui-ta-ai loh thaomnah a dang bangla thaomnah a paek.

And ‘locusts’ exited from the smoke into the earth. And to them was given a capability just like the scorpions of the earth have capability.

4 Te phoeiah amih te a tal ah Pathen kah kutnoek aka khueh pawh hlang pawt atah, diklai kah khopol khaw, sulhing boeih neh thingkung boeih te thae sak pawt ham a thui.

And they were told not to harm the grass of the earth, nor any green plant, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

5 Te phoeiah amih te ngawn pawt ham ni te rhoek taengah a paek. Tedae hla nga khuiah a ngawn vetih a phaepnah loh saelkhui-ta-ai kah phaepnah bangla hlang a toeh.

And it was designated to them [locusts], not to kill them [men] but, to torment them five months. And their torment is like the torment of a scorpion whenever it strikes a person.

6 Te khohnin ah hlang loh dueknah a toem uh suidae hmu uh loengloeng mahpawh. Duek ham khaw a hue uh suidae dueknah loh amih te a rhaelrham tak ni.

And in those days the people will seek death but not find it; they will want to die but death will run away from them.

7 Tangboeng rhoek kah mueisa tah caem la aka rhuengphong marhang rhoek phek la om tih a lu dongkah te sui rhuisam phek la, a maelhmai tah hlang maelhmai la,

Now the appearance of the ‘locusts’ was like horses prepared for battle, and something like a golden crown was on their heads, and their faces were like human faces.

8 sam khaw huta kah sam bangla a khueh uh tih a no tah sathueng kah no bangla om.

They had hair like a woman's and their teeth were like a lion's.

9 Rhangpho khaw thi rhangpho bang a khueh uh. Amih kah phae ol tah caem la aka yong marhang leng a yet kah ol bangla om.

They had breastplates like breastplates of iron and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.

10 A mai khaw saelkhui-ta-ai neh suehling phek la a khueh uh tih amih kah a mai ah hlang te hla nga thae sak ham a thaomnah khaw om.

And, they have tails like scorpions and stingers precisely in those tails! They have the capability to hurt the populace five months,

11 Amih ah tangrhom dung kah puencawn te manghai la om. Anih ming te Hebrew la Abaddon tih Greek la Apollyon tila om. (Abyssos g12)

having as king over them the angel of the Abyss—his name in Hebrew is Abbaddon, while in Greek he has the name Apollyon. (Abyssos g12)

12 Kosi pakhat tah khum. Hekah phoeiah kosi panit ha pawk bal ni he.

The first woe is past, but, two woes are still coming, after these things.

13 Puencawn a parhuk loh a ueng vaengah Pathen hmaikah sui hmueihtuk a ki pali lamloh ol pakhat ka yaak.

So the sixth angel trumpeted, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God

14 Olueng aka khueh puencawn a parhuk nah te, “Euphrates tuiva puei ah puencawn pali a khoh te hlah laeh,” a ti nah.

saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

15 Te dongah khonoek, khohnin, hla neh kum la a hmoel puencawn pali te, hlang hlop thum ah hlop at te ngawn ham a hlah uh.

So the four angels were released—they had been prepared for the hour and the day and month and year—so that they might kill a third of mankind.

16 Te vaengah marhang caem kah hlangmi tah a thawng thawngrha lo tih a hlangmi te ka yaak.

And the number of the mounted troops was a hundred million (I heard their number).

17 Te phoeiah marhang neh a sokah aka ngol rhoek te mikhlam ah ka hmuh tangloeng, rhangpho a lingdak la, nukyum la, a aeng la a khueh uh. Marhang rhoek kah lu te khaw cathueng lu bangla om tih amih ka lamkah hmai, hmaikhu neh kat te thoeng.

And in the vision I saw the horses like this: those who rode them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue and sulfur yellow; the heads of the horses were like lions' heads; out of their mouths came fire, smoke and brimstone.

18 Amih ka khuikah aka thoeng hmai, hmaikhu, kat lamkah lucik pathum long te hlang hlop thum a ngawn.

By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that came out of their mouths.

19 Marhang rhoek kah saithainah tah a ka neh a mai ah om. Amih kah a mai loh rhul phek la lu a khueh uh dongah te nen te thae uh.

For the capability of the horses is in their mouths—and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads, and with them they do harm.

20 Te lucik rhoek lamkah a ngawn pawh, hlang hoei rhoek long te khaw a kut dongkah khoboe te yut uh pawh. Rhaithae neh sui mueirhol, cakben, rhohum, lungto neh thing te bawk pawt ham te. Te long te a hmu moenih, a yaak thai moenih, a pongpa moenih.

Yet the rest of the people, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as to stop worshiping the demons, even the idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

21 Amamih kah ngawnnah, a rhunsi khuehnah, a Cukhalnah, a huencan te khaw yut uh pawh.

and they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their fornication or their thefts.