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

¹The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

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

²He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a TR adds “great” burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

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

³Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to 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.

⁴They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.

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

⁵They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.

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

⁶In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

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

⁷The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people’s faces.

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

⁸They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.

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

⁹They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.

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

¹⁰They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for 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,” “Abaddon” is a Hebrew word that means ruin, destruction, or the place of destruction but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon.” “Apollyon” means “Destroyer.”

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

¹²The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.

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

¹³The sixth angel sounded. 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.

¹⁴saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, “Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”

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

¹⁵The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.

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

¹⁶The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million literally, “ten thousands of ten thousands” . 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.

¹⁷Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.

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

¹⁸By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, 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 mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

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;

²⁰The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t 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.

²¹They didn’t repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, The word for “sorceries” (pharmakeia) also implies the use of potions, poisons, and drugs nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.