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Revised Standard Version

Revelation 9:12

The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still 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.
Good News Translation
The first horror is over; after this there are still two more horrors to come.
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.
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 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit; 2 he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth; 4 they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those of mankind who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads; 5 they were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man. 6 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them. 7 In appearance the locusts were like horses arrayed for battle; on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, 8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth; 9 they had scales like iron breastplates, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. 10 They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their power of hurting men for five months lies in their tails.

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
God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth."
Genesis 9:23
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it upon both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
Genesis 9:25
he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a slave of slaves shall he be to his brothers."
Genesis 9:26
He also said, "Blessed by the LORD my God be Shem; and let Canaan be his slave."
Genesis 9:28
After the flood Noah lived three hundred and fifty years.
Genesis 17:11
You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
Exodus 12:13
The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
Exodus 13:16
It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes; for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt."
Joshua 2:12
Now then, swear to me by the LORD that as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign,

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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