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Good News Translation

Revelation 9:12

The first horror is over; after this there are still two more horrors to come.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Trumpet;   The Topic Concordance - Seals;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Mahometanism;   Order;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Plagues of Egypt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers;   Witness;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Abaddon;   Locusts;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Revelation of John:;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this.
King James Version (1611)
One woe is past, and behold there come two woes more hereafter.
King James Version
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
New American Standard Bible
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
New Century Version
The first trouble is past; there are still two other troubles that will come.
THE MESSAGE
The first doom is past. Two dooms yet to come.
English Standard Version
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
Berean Standard Bible
The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still to follow.
Contemporary English Version
The first horrible thing has now happened! But wait. Two more horrible things will happen soon.
Complete Jewish Bible
The first woe has passed, but there are still two woes to come.
Darby Translation
The first woe has passed. Behold, there come yet two woes after these things.
Easy-to-Read Version
The first terror is now past. There are still two other terrors to come.
Geneva Bible (1587)
One woe is past, and beholde, yet two woes come after this.
George Lamsa Translation
The first woe is passed; and behold, two more woes follow after.
Lexham English Bible
The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
Literal Translation
The first woe has departed; behold, after these things come two woes.
Amplified Bible
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
American Standard Version
The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.
Bible in Basic English
The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.
Hebrew Names Version
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
International Standard Version
The first catastrophe is over. After these things there are still two more catastrophes to come.Revelation 8:13;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
One woe hath gone. Behold, two woes yet come after it.
Murdock Translation
One woe is past; lo, there come yet two woes after them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
One woe is past, & beholde two woes come yet after this.
English Revised Version
The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.
World English Bible
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
One wo is past: behold there come yet two woes after this.
Weymouth's New Testament
The first woe is past; two other woes have still to come.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
O wo is passid, and lo! yit comen twei woes.
Update Bible Version
The first Woe is past: look, there come yet two Woes hereafter.
Webster's Bible Translation
One woe is past; [and] behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
New English Translation
The first woe has passed, but two woes are still coming after these things!
New King James Version
One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.
New Living Translation
The first terror is past, but look, two more terrors are coming!
New Life Bible
The first time of trouble is past. But see, there are two more times of trouble coming after this.
New Revised Standard
The first woe has passed. There are still two woes to come.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The first, Woe, hath passed away, lo! there come, yet, two, Woes, after these things.
Douay-Rheims Bible
One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.
Revised Standard Version
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
One woo is past and beholde two wooes come after this.
Young's Literal Translation
The first wo did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
One wo is past, and beholde two woes come yet after this.
Mace New Testament (1729)
One wo is past, and now two woes are to follow.
Simplified Cowboy Version
After this first horror is complete, there are still two more to come.

Contextual Overview

1 Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw a star which had fallen down to the earth, and it was given the key to the abyss. 2 The star opened the abyss, and smoke poured out of it, like the smoke from a large furnace; the sunlight and the air were darkened by the smoke from the abyss. 3 Locusts came down out of the smoke upon the earth, and they were given the same kind of power that scorpions have. 4 They were told not to harm the grass or the trees or any other plant; they could harm only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads. 5 The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting. 6 During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them. 7 The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces. 8 Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9 Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breastplates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle. 10 They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

woe: Revelation 9:1, Revelation 9:2

two: Revelation 9:13-21, Revelation 8:13, Revelation 11:14

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 2:10 - lamentations Revelation 12:12 - Woe

Cross-References

Genesis 9:17
That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings."
Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth took a robe and held it behind them on their shoulders. They walked backward into the tent and covered their father, keeping their faces turned away so as not to see him naked.
Genesis 9:25
he said, "A curse on Canaan! He will be a slave to his brothers.
Genesis 9:26
Give praise to the Lord , the God of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Shem.
Genesis 9:28
After the flood Noah lived 350 years
Genesis 17:11
From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old, including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me.
Exodus 12:13
The blood on the doorposts will be a sign to mark the houses in which you live. When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not harm you when I punish the Egyptians.
Exodus 13:16
This observance will be a reminder, like something tied on our hands or on our foreheads; it will remind us that the Lord brought us out of Egypt by his great power.'"
Joshua 2:12
Now swear by him that you will treat my family as kindly as I have treated you, and give me some sign that I can trust you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

One woe is past,.... One of the three woe trumpets, the first of them; that is, in the vision which John had of it, not the thing itself designed by it:

[and] behold there come two woes more hereafter; under the blowing of the sixth and seventh trumpets.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

One woe is past - The woe referred to in Revelation 9:1-11. In Revelation 8:13 three woes are mentioned which were to occur successively, and which were to embrace the whole of the period comprised in the seven seals and the seven trumpets. Under the last of the seals we have considered four successive periods, referring to events connected with the downfall of the Western empire; and then we have found one important event worthy of a place in noticing the things which would permanently affect the destiny of the world - the rise, the character, and the conquests of the Saracens. This was referred to by the first woe-trumpet. We enter now on the consideration of the second. This occupies the remainder of the chapter, and in illustrating it the same method will be pursued as heretofore: first, to explain the literal meaning of the words, phrases, and symbols; and then to inquire what events in history, if any, succeeding the former, occurred, which would correspond with the language used.

And, behold, there come two woes more hereafter - Two momentous and important events that will be attended with sorrow to mankind. It cannot be intended that there would be no other evils that would visit mankind; but the eye, in glancing along the future, rested on these as having a special pre-eminence in affecting the destiny of the church and the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 9:12. One wo is past — That is, the wo or desolation by the symbolical scorpions.

There came two woes more — In the trumpets of the sixth and seventh angels.


 
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