¹Zvino mutumwa wechishanu wakaridza, ndikaona nyeredzi ichiwa kubva kudenga ichiwira pasi; ikapiwa kiyi yegomba risina chigadziko.

¹And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

²Zvino yakazarura gomba risina chigadziko, utsi ndokusimuka hwuchibuda mugomba, seutsi hwevira guru; zuva nedenga zvikasvibiswa nekuda kweutsi hwegomba.

²and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

³Muutsi mukabuda mhashu dzikauya panyika, dzikapiwa simba sezvinyavada zvenyika zvine simba.

³And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,

⁴Dzikaudzwa kuti dzirege kutadzira uswa hwenyika, nechinhu chipi zvacho chinyoro, kana miti upi, asi vanhu chete vasina mucherechedzo waMwari pahuma dzavo.

⁴and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but — the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

⁵Uye kukapiwa kwadziri kuti dzisavauraya, asi kuti varwadziswe mwedzi mishanu; kurwadzisa kwadzo sekurwadzisa kwechinyavada kana chichiruma munhu.

⁵and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment [is] as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;

⁶Zvino namazuva iwayo vanhu vachatsvaka rufu, asi havangaruwani, uye vachashuva kufa, asi rufu rwuchavatiza.

⁶and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

⁷Zvekare zvimiro zvemhashu zvakaita semabhiza akagadzirirwa hondo; nepamisoro yadzo sepane zvimwe zvakaita sekorona dzakafanana nendarama, nezviso zvadzo sezviso zvevanhu.

⁷And the likenesses of the locusts [are] like to horses made ready to battle, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as faces of men,

⁸Zvino dzakange dzine vhudzi sevhudzi revakadzi, nemeno adzo akange akaita seeshumba.

⁸and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as [those] of lions,

⁹Zvino dzakange dzine zvidzitiro zvechifuva zvakaita sezvidzitiro zvechifuva zvematare; nekutinhira kwemapapiro adzo kwakaita sekutinhira kwengoro dzemabhiza mazhinji anomhanyira kuhondo.

⁹and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings [is] as the noise of chariots of many horses running to battle;

¹⁰Zvino dzakange dzine miswe yakaita seyezvinyavada, uye pakange pane umborera pamiswe yadzo nesimba rekukuvadza vanhu mwedzi mishanu.

¹⁰and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority [is] to injure men five months;

¹¹Zvino dzakange dzina mambo pamusoro padzo, ari mutumwa wegomba risina chigadziko, zita rake nechiHebheru ndiAbhadhoni, asi nechiGiriki zita rake ndiAporioni.

¹¹and they have over them a king — the messenger of the abyss — a name [is] to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.

¹²Nhamo imwe yapfuura; tarira, nhamo dzimwe mbiri dzinotevera shure kwaizvozvi.

¹²The first wo did go forth, lo, there come yet two woes after these things.

¹³Zvino mutumwa wechitanhatu wakaridza, ndikanzwa inzwi richibva panyanga ina dzearitari yendarama iri pamberi paMwari,

¹³And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,

¹⁴richiti kumutumwa wechitanhatu wakange ane hwamanda: Sunungura vatumwa vana vakasungwa parwizi rukuru Yufratesi.

¹⁴saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;`

¹⁵Zvino vatumwa vana vakasunungurwa, vakange vakagadzirirwa awa nezuva, nemwedzi, negore, kuponda chetatu chevanhu.

¹⁵and loosed were the four messengers, who have been made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they may kill the third of men;

¹⁶Zvino uwandu hwehondo dzevatasvi vemabhiza hwakange hwuri mazana maviri ezvuru zvezvuru; ndikanzwa uwandu hwavo.

¹⁶and the number of the forces of the horsemen [is] two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them.

¹⁷Zvino saizvozvo ndakaona mabhiza muchiratidzo nevakange vakaatasva, vane zvidzitiro zvechifuva zvemoto, nezvehiasindo*, nezvesarufa*; nemisoro yemabhiza yakaita semisoro yeshumba; nemumiromo yawo makabuda moto neutsi nesarufa.

¹⁷And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting upon them, having breastplates of fire, and jacinth, and brimstone; and the heads of the horses [are] as heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceedeth fire, and smoke, and brimstone;

¹⁸Nezvizvi zvitatu kwakaurawa chikamu chetatu chevanhu; nemoto uye neutsi uye nesarufa, zvakabuda mumiromo yawo.

¹⁸by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,

¹⁹Nekuti simba rawo riri mumiromo yawo, nemumiswe yawo; nekuti miswe yawo yakaita senyoka uye ine misoro; uye anokuvadza nayo.

¹⁹for their authorities are in their mouth, and in their tails, for their tails [are] like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injure;

²⁰Zvino vakasara vevanhu vasina kuurawa nematambudziko awa asi vakasatendeuka pamabasa emaoko avo, kuti varege kushumira madhimoni, nezvifananidzo zvendarama, nezvesirivheri, nezvendarira, nezvamabwe, nezvematanda, zvisingagoni kuona, kana kunzwa, kana kufamba;

²⁰and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

²¹uye havana kutendeuka paumhondi hwavo, kana pauroyi hwavo, kana paupombwe hwavo, kana paumbavha hwavo.

²¹yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.