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And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy are You to receive the scroll, and to open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood purchased us to God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

And another horse went out, red. And it was given to the one sitting on it to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another. And a great sword was given to him.

And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those having been slain for the Word of God, and for the witness which they had.

And they cried with a great voice, saying, Until when, holy and true Master, do You not judge and take vengeance for our blood, from those dwelling on the earth?

And there was given to each one a white robe. And it was said to them that they should rest yet a little time, until might be fulfilled also the number of their fellow-slaves and their brothers, those being about to be killed, even asthey.

And "they said to the mountains" and to the rocks, "Fall on us," and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, Hos. 10:8

And they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation to our God sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb.

And all the angels and of the elders and of the four living creatures stood around the throne. And they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God,

And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These, the ones having been clothed in the white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?

And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes and whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

Because of this they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. And He sitting on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

And they will not hunger still, nor will they thirst still, nor at all shall fall on them the sun, nor any kind of heat.

And the seven angels having the seven trumpets prepared themselves, that they might trumpet.

And the name of the star is said to be Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became changed into wormwood. And many men died from the waters, because they were bitter.

And it was said to them that they should not harm the grass of the earth, nor every green thing, nor every tree, except only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they be tormented five months. And their torment is as the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.

And in those days men will seek death, and they will not find it. And they will long to die, yet death will flee from them.

And they had hairs like the hairs of women; and their teeth were like those of lions.

And they had breastplates like iron breastplates; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running to war.

And they have tails like scorpions, and their stings were in their tails; and their authority is to harm men five months.