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

¹And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him 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 opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

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

³And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

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 unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.

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

⁵And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.

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

⁶And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.

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

⁷And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men's faces.

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

⁸And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [teeth] 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 it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war.

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

¹⁰And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men five months.

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

¹¹They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath the name Apollyon.

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

¹²The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.

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

¹³And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

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

¹⁴one saying to the sixth angel that had one trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.

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

¹⁵And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.

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

¹⁶And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: 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 them that sat on them, having breastplates [as] of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the 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 plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.

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

¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

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 mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

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

²¹and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.