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Revelation 9:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Thus I saw the horses in the vision and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur. "
Revelation 9:17
Verse in Context
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15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
16 The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them.
17 Thus I saw the horses in the vision and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the horses’ heads resembled lions’ heads. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
18 By these three plagues, one third of mankind was killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they harm.
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Revelation 9:1
"The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him."
Revelation 9:2
"He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit."
Revelation 9:3
"Then out of the smoke came locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power."
Revelation 9:4
"They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads."
Revelation 9:5
"They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person."
Revelation 9:6
"In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them."
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