Chivumbulutso 9
1 Mngelo wachisanu anayimba lipenga lake, ndipo ndinaona nyenyezi ikugwa pa dziko lapansi kuchokera ku thambo. Nyenyeziyo inapatsidwa kiyi ya ku chidzenje chakuya. (Abyssos g12)
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet. I saw a star from heaven that had fallen to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. (Abyssos g12)
2 Nyenyeziyo itatsekula pa chidzenje chakuyacho panatuluka utsi ngati wochokera mʼngʼanjo yayikulu. Dzuwa ndi thambo zinada chifukwa cha utsi ochokera mʼdzenjemo. (Abyssos g12)
He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the shaft like smoke from a huge furnace. The sun and the air turned dark by the smoke pouring out of the shaft. (Abyssos g12)
3 Ndipo mʼkati mwa utsimo munatuluka dzombe kukalowa mʼdziko lapansi ndipo linapatsidwa mphamvu zoluma ngati za zinkhanira pa dziko lapansi.
Out of the smoke locusts came on the earth, and they were given power like that of scorpions on the earth.
4 Dzombelo linalamulidwa kuti lisawononge udzu wa pa dziko lapansi, kapena chomera chilichonse, kapena mtengo uliwonse, koma anthu okhawo amene analibe chizindikiro cha Mulungu pa mphumi zawo.
They were told not to damage the grass on the earth or any green plant or tree, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 Silinapatsidwe mphamvu yowapha koma yowazunza kwa miyezi isanu. Ndipo ululu umene anthuwo anawumva unali ngati wa chinkhanira chikaluma munthu.
They were not given permission to kill those people, but only to torture them for five months. Their agony would be like the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a person.
6 Masiku amenewo anthu adzafunafuna imfa koma sadzayipeza. Adzalakalaka kufa koma imfa izidzawathawa.
In those days people will seek death, but will not find it. They will greatly desire to die, but death will flee from them.
7 Dzombe linkaoneka ngati akavalo okonzekera nkhondo. Pamitu pawo panali ngati zipewa zaufumu zagolide ndipo nkhope zawo ngati za anthu.
The locusts looked like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.
8 Tsitsi lawo linali ngati la amayi, mano awo ngati a mikango.
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
9 Dzombelo linavala za pachifuwa zachitsulo. Phokoso la mapiko awo linali ngati phokoso la magaleta ankhondo ambiri okokedwa ndi akavalo othamangira ku nkhondo.
They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound made by many chariots and horses running into battle.
10 Linali ndi michira ngati zinkhanira ndi mbola. Mʼmichira yake munali mphamvu yozunza nayo anthu kwa miyezi isanu.
They had tails with stingers like scorpions; in their tails they had power to harm people for five months.
11 Mfumu yawo inali mngelo wolamulira Chidzenje chakuya chija. Mʼchihebri dzina lake ndi Abadoni ndipo mʼChigriki ndi Apoliyoni (tanthauzo lake ndiye kuti, Wowononga). (Abyssos g12)
They had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew was Abaddon, and in Greek he had the name Apollyon. (Abyssos g12)
12 Tsoka loyamba lapita; matsoka ena awiri akubwerabe.
The first woe is past. Look! After this there are still two disasters to come.
13 Mngelo wachisanu ndi chimodzi anayimba lipenga lake, ndipo ndinamva liwu lochokera ku ngodya zinayi za guwa lansembe lagolide lija lokhala pamaso pa Mulungu.
The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is present before God.
14 Liwulo linati kwa mngelo wachisanu ndi chimodzi amene anali ndi lipenga uja, “Masula angelo anayi amene anamangidwa pa mtsinje waukulu wa Yufurate.”
The voice said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.”
15 Ndipo anamasulidwadi angelo anayi aja amene anasungidwa kukonzekera ora ili, tsiku ili, mwezi uwu ndi chaka ichi kuti aphe limodzi la magawo atatu a anthu.
The four angels who had been prepared for that hour, that day, that month, and that year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 Ndinamva chiwerengero cha ankhondo a pa akavalo aja, kuti chinali 200 miliyoni.
The number of the soldiers on horseback was 200,000,000. I heard their number.
17 Akavalo ndi okwerapo amene ndinaona mʼmasomphenya anga ankaoneka motere: Zovala za pachifukwa pawo zinali zofiira ngati moto, zobiriwira ngati utsi, ndi zachikasu ngati miyala ya sulufule. Mitu ya akavalowo inali ngati ya mikango ndipo mʼkamwa mwawo munkatuluka moto, utsi ndi sulufule.
This is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode on them: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue and sulfurous yellow. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.
18 Gawo limodzi la magawo atatu a anthu linaphedwa ndi miliri yamoto, utsi ndi sulufule zimene zinkachoka mʼkamwa mwawo.
A third of the people were killed by these three plagues: the fire, smoke, and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 Mphamvu za akavalowo inali mʼkamwa mwawo ndi mʼmichira mwawo; pakuti michira yawo inali ngati njoka; ndi mitu imene inkalumira.
For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails—for their tails were like snakes, and they had heads with which they inflicted wounds on people.
20 Anthu ena onse amene sanaphedwe ndi miliri imeneyi sanalapebe kuti asiye ntchito zawo zoyipa. Iwo sanasiye kupembedza ziwanda ndi mafano agolide, asiliva, amkuwa, amwala ndi amtengo, mafano amene sangathe kuona, kumva kapena kuyankhula.
The rest of mankind, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the deeds they had done, nor did they stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see, hear, or walk.
21 Sanalapenso kuleka zakupha, zamatsenga awo, zachigololo zawo kapena umbava wawo.
Neither did they repent of their murders, their sorcery, their sexual immorality or their acts of theft.
