Revelation 9:13

Simplified Cowboy Version

The sixth angel blew his bugle. I heard a loud voice coming from the four corners of the altar of God.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four horns of the golden altar that is before God, I heard a voice

King James Version (1611)
And the sixt Angel sounded, and I heard a voyce from the foure hornes of ye golden altar, which is before God,

King James Version
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

New American Standard Bible
Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

New Century Version
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God.

THE MESSAGE
The sixth Angel trumpeted. I heard a voice speaking to the sixth Angel from the horns of the Golden Altar before God: "Let the Four Angels loose, the Angels confined at the great River Euphrates."

English Standard Version
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God

Contemporary English Version
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice speak from the four corners of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God.

Complete Jewish Bible
The sixth angel sounded his shofar, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the gold altar before God,

Darby Translation
And the sixth angel sounded [his] trumpet: and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which [is] before God,

Easy-to-Read Version
The sixth angel blew his trumpet. Then I heard a voice coming from the horns on the four corners of the golden altar that is before God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the sixt Angel blew the trumpet, and I heard a voyce from the foure hornes of the golden altar, which is before God,

George Lamsa Translation
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Good News Translation
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice coming from the four corners of the gold altar standing before God.

Lexham English Bible
And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns of the golden altar that is before God

Literal Translation
And the sixth angel trumpeted. And I heard one voice out of the four horns of the golden altar before God,

Amplified Bible
Then the sixth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I heard a solitary voice from the four horns of the golden altar which stands before God,

American Standard Version
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Bible in Basic English
And at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before God,

Hebrew Names Version
The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

International Standard Version
When the sixth angel blew his trumpet, I heard a voice from the fourfour">[fn] horns of the gold altar in front of God.

Etheridge Translation
And the Sixth angel sounded. And I heard one voice from the horns of the altar of gold which was before Aloha,

Murdock Translation
And the sixth angel sounded; and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which was before God,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the sixt angell blewe, & I hearde a voyce from the foure hornes of the golden aulter, which is before God,

English Revised Version
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

World English Bible
The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four corners of the golden altar which is before God,

Weymouth's New Testament
The sixth angel blew his trumpet; and I heard a single voice speaking from among the horns of the golden incense altar which is in the presence of God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Aftir these thingis also the sixte aungel trumpide; and Y herde a vois fro foure corneris of the goldun auter, that is bifore the iyen of God,

Update Bible Version
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

New English Translation
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

New King James Version
Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

New Living Translation
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice speaking from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God.

New Life Bible
The sixth angel blew his horn. I heard a voice coming from the four corners of the altar made of gold that is before God.

New Revised Standard
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the sixth messenger, sounded; and I heard one voice, from among the horns of the altar of gold which is before God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet: and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before the eyes of God,

Revised Standard Version
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And the sixte. angell blewe and I herd a voyce from the iiii. corners of the golden aultre which is before god

Young's Literal Translation
And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the sixte angel blewe, and I herde a voyce from the foure corners of the golden aultre which is before God,

Mace New Testament (1729)
then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God,

Contextual Overview

¹³The sixth angel blew his bugle. I heard a loud voice coming from the four corners of the altar of God. ¹⁴The voice said to the angel, "Release the four angels bound at the Euphrates Creek!" ¹⁵These four angel's shackles were cut loose. It is their day. It is their hour. It is the minute they were made for. Their mission, their only mission, is to kill a third of the human race. ¹⁶These four angels took the form of two hundred million horses and their riders. Their breastplates shone like hot iron, blue as sapphire and yellow like glowing sulfur. ¹⁷The horses had heads like lions. Fire, smoke, and sulfur poured out of their mouths like deadly exhaust. ¹⁸One out of every three people on earth were killed by these three plagues—fire, smoke, and sulfur which came out of the horse's mouths. ¹⁹The horse's strength wasn't confined to their mouth. They had tails like venomous vipers that struck and killed with deadly quickness and precision. ²⁰But still, even those who weren't killed did not turn away from their lust after materialistic idols. They didn't stop worshiping demons, idols of gold, stone, wood, and bronze. ²¹They didn't repent of evil ways such as murder, witchcraft, sexual immorality, or thieving.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the sixth: Revelation 9:1

a voice: Revelation 8:3-5, Hebrews 9:24, Hebrews 10:21

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 4:19 - the golden Luke 1:11 - the altar 1 Corinthians 15:52 - last Revelation 6:9 - I saw Revelation 8:2 - trumpets Revelation 9:12 - two Revelation 10:1 - another Revelation 11:15 - the seventh

Cross-References

Revelation 4:3
This someone shone like they were made of precious gems. An emerald rainbow circled the throne.

Revelation 10:1
Then another mighty angel appeared out of heaven. He wore a cloud and a rainbow for a crown. His face was as bright as the sun and his legs were pillars of molten fire.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the sixth angel sounded,.... His trumpet:

and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God; the allusion is not to the altar of burnt offering, which was covered with brass, but to the altar of incense covered with gold; and hence here, and elsewhere, it is called "the golden altar", and was a figure of the intercession of Christ; for on this altar incense was offered, which was typical of the prayers of the saints offered by Christ, through his mediation: the matter of this altar was shittim wood, a wood that is incorruptible, and of long duration, denoting the perpetuity of Christ's intercession; and its being covered with gold expresses the glory and excellency of it; its form was foursquare, as is the city of the new Jerusalem, and shows that Christ's intercession avails for all his people in the four parts of the world: and on it were "four horns", which some think represent the four evangelists, or the Gospel sent into the four parts of the world, and which is the power of God unto salvation; and for the contempt of which, in the eastern empire, the judgments signified under this trumpet came upon it; though rather these may point at the large extent and fulness of Christ's intercession, for all his people, in the four corners of the earth, as well as his power to protect and defend them, and to scatter and destroy his and their enemies. This altar is said to be "before God", in a visionary way, as the altar of incense was before the vail, and the mercy seat, and by the ark of the testimony, Exodus 30:1; suggesting that Christ continually appears in the presence of God for all the saints. Now from hence was a "voice heard" by John, and which seems to be the voice of Christ, the advocate and intercessor. In the Greek text it is, "one voice"; not the voice of many angels round about the throne, nor of the souls under the altar, but of the one and only Mediator between God and man, the Lord Jesus Christ; and this was a voice, not supplicating, but commanding, being addressed to one of his ministering spirits.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the sixth angel sounded - See the notes on Revelation 8:2, Revelation 8:7.

And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God - In the language used here there is an allusion to the temple, but the scene is evidently laid in heaven. The temple in its arrangements was designed, undoubtedly, to be in important respects a symbol of heaven, and this idea constantly occurs in the Scriptures. Compare the Epistle to the Hebrews passim. The golden altar stood in the holy place, between the table of show-bread and the golden candlestick. See the notes on Hebrews 9:1-2. This altar, made of shittim or acacia wood, was ornamented at the four corners, and overlaid throughout with laminae of gold. Hence, it was called “the golden altar,” in contradistinction from the altar for sacrifice, which was made of stone. Compare the notes on Matthew 21:12, following on its four corners it had projections which are called horns Exodus 30:2-3, which seem to have been intended mainly for ornaments. See Jahn, Arch. 332; Joseph. Ant. iii. 6, 8. When it is said that this was “before God,” the meaning is, that it was directly before or in front of the symbol of the divine presence in the most holy place. This image, in the vision of John, is transformed to heaven. The voice seemed to come from the very presence of the Deity; from the place where offerings are made to God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 9:13. The four horns of the golden altar — This is another not very obscure indication that the Jewish temple was yet standing.