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Revelation 8:6–9:21

The Trumpets Sound

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The Trumpets Sound

Revelation 8:6–9:21

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This song belongs to the Revelation collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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Revelation
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Revelation
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[Refrain] Sound the warning over earth and sea. Still the rest did not repent. [Verse 1] The first trumpet scatters hail and fire with blood; a third of trees and all green grass burn. The second casts a burning mountain into the sea; a third becomes blood, creatures die, ships break. The third drops a blazing star on rivers, Wormwood makes the waters bitter. The fourth strikes sun, moon, and stars; a third of day and night lose light. [Breakdown] An angel crosses the height of heaven: Woe. Woe. Woe. [Verse 2] The fifth trumpet opens the bottomless pit. Smoke veils the sun; armed locusts rise. They torment the unsealed for five months, under Abaddon, angel of the abyss. Men seek death, but death flees. [Verse 3] At the sixth trumpet, four angels are loosed from the great river Euphrates. Horsemen beyond counting move; fire, smoke, and brimstone issue forth, and a third of men are slain. [Post-Chorus] Yet the survivors keep their idols, their murders, sorceries, thefts. They do not turn from the works of their hands. [Outro] Sound the warning. Two woes have passed; one still comes.

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Revelation 8: Silence, prayer, and the first four trumpets

The seventh seal opens not with immediate noise but with about half an hour of silence in heaven. That quiet is followed by seven trumpets and by the prayers of the saints rising with incense from the golden altar. Fire from the same altar is cast to earth, linking the heavenly worship scene with the judgments that follow. The first four trumpets strike vegetation, sea, fresh water, and the lights of heaven. Their repeated thirds show severe but bounded devastation, while individual details resist careless generalization: all green grass burns even though only a third of trees do. The Book of Revelation uses plague imagery familiar from Exodus without reducing it to a coded list of modern disasters. At the end, a flying herald cries three woes for the remaining trumpets, signaling a shift from damaged conditions of life toward direct torment and death among the earth's inhabitants.

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Revelation 9: Torment is bounded, and repentance is refused

The fifth and sixth trumpets intensify the woes, but the Book of Revelation keeps placing limits beside the terror. A star receives a key to the bottomless pit and releases locustlike creatures whose targets, duration, and power are restricted. They cannot harm vegetation, cannot touch those with God's seal, and cannot kill, though their five months of torment are dreadful. Their composite bodies borrow the language of locusts, scorpions, lions, armored cavalry, and rushing chariots. The sixth trumpet releases four bound angels at an appointed time and an immense mounted force that kills a third of humanity. Yet the chapter does not end by staring at the army. Its closing diagnosis concerns the survivors, who continue worshiping lifeless idols and refuse to repent of murder, sorcery, fornication, and theft. The final emphasis falls on persistent allegiance rather than spectacular destruction.

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