1 And when he opened the seventh seal, a silence fell in heaven for about half an hour.
2 And I saw the seven angels who stand in God's presence, and seven trumpets were handed to them.
3 Another angel came and took his place at the altar, holding a golden censer; and he was given a great deal of incense, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar in front of the throne.
4 And the smoke of the incense went up together with the prayers of the saints from the angel's hand into the presence of God.
5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it from the fire of the altar, and hurled it onto the earth; and there came voices and thunders and lightnings and an earthquake.
6 And the seven angels holding the seven trumpets got themselves ready to sound them.
7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire came, mixed with blood, and were hurled onto the earth; and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
8 Then the second angel sounded, and what looked like a huge mountain ablaze with fire was cast into the sea; and a third of the sea turned to blood,
9 and a third of the creatures in the sea, those that had life, died, and a third of the ships were wrecked.
10 The third angel sounded, and from heaven a great star fell, burning like a lamp, and it fell upon a third of the rivers and upon the springs of waters.
11 The star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters turned into wormwood, and many people died of the waters because they had been made bitter.
12 Then the fourth angel sounded, 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 them grew dark, and for a third of it the day did not shine, and the night in the same way.
13 And I looked, and I heard an angel flying in mid-heaven, calling out in a great voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, because of the remaining trumpet blasts of the three angels who are yet to sound!"