Apocalypse 9

JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Et le cinquième Ange sonna... Alors je vis un astre qui du ciel avait chu sur la terre. On lui remitla clef du puits de l'Abîme?	1 And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth, and there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit.
2 Il ouvrit le puits de l'Abîme et il en monta une fumée, comme celle d'une immense fournaise - lesoleil et l'atmosphère en furent obscurcis --	2 And he opened the bottomless pit: and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke of the pit.
3 et, de cette fumée, des sauterelles se répandirent sur la terre; on leur donna un pouvoir pareil àcelui des scorpions de la terre.	3 And from the smoke of the pit there came out locusts upon the earth. And power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power:
4 On leur dit d'épargner les prairies, toute verdure et tout arbre, et de s'en prendre seulement auxhommes qui ne porteraient pas sur le front le sceau de Dieu.	4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree: but only the men who have not the sign of God on their foreheads.
5 On leur donna, non de les tuer, mais de les tourmenter durant cinq mois. La douleur qu'ellesprovoquent ressemble à celle d'une piqûre de scorpion.	5 And it was given unto them that they should not kill them; but that they should torment them five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.
6 En ces jours-là, les hommes rechercheront la mort sans la trouver, ils souhaiteront mourir et lamort les fuira!	6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them.
7 Or ces sauterelles, à les voir, font penser à des chevaux équipés pour la guerre; sur leur tête ondirait des couronnes d'or, et leur face rappelle des faces humaines;	7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle: and on their heads were, as it were, crowns like gold: and their faces were as the faces of men.
8 leurs cheveux, des chevelures de femmes, et leurs dents, des dents de lions;	8 And they had hair as the hair of women; and their teeth were as lions:
9 leur thorax, des cuirasses de fer, et le bruit de leurs ailes, le vacarme de chars aux multipleschevaux se ruant au combat;	9 And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.
10 elles ont une queue pareille à des scorpions, avec un dard; et dans leur queue se trouve leurpouvoir de torturer les hommes durant cinq mois.	10 And they had tails like to scorpions, and there were stings in their tails; and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had over them
11 A leur tête, comme roi, elles ont l'Ange de l'Abîme; il s'appelle en hébreu: "Abaddôn", et engrec: "Apollyôn."	11 A king, the angel of the bottomless pit; whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon; in Latin Exterminans,
12 Le premier "Malheur" a passé, voici encore deux "Malheurs" qui le suivent...	12 One woe is past, and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.
13 Et le sixième Ange sonna... Alors j'entendis une voix venant des quatre cornes de l'autel d'orplacé devant Dieu;	13 And the sixth angel sounded the trumpet: and I heard a voice from the four horns of the great altar, which is before the eyes of God,
14 elle dit au sixième Ange portant trompette: "Relâche les quatre Anges enchaînés sur le grandfleuve Euphrate."	14 Saying to the sixth angel, who had the trumpet: Loose the four angels, who are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15 Et l'on relâcha les quatre Anges qui se tenaient prêts pour l'heure et le jour et le mois et l'année,afin d'exterminer le tiers des hommes.	15 And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year: for to kill the third part of men.
16 Leur armée comptait 200.000.000 de cavaliers: on m'en précisa le nombre.	16 And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty thousand times ten thousand. And I heard the number of them.
17 Tels m'apparurent en vision les chevaux et leurs cavaliers: ceux-ci portent des cuirasses de feu,d'hyacinthe et de soufre; quant aux chevaux, leur tête est comme celle du lion, et leur bouche crache feu et fuméeet soufre.	17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: and they that sat on them, had breastplates of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone, and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and from their mouths proceeded fire, and smoke, and brimstone.
18 Alors le tiers des hommes fut exterminé par ces trois fléaux: le feu, la fumée et le soufre vomisde la bouche des chevaux.	18 And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
19 Car la puissance des chevaux réside en leur bouche; elle réside aussi dans leur queue: cesqueues, en effet, ainsi que des serpents, sont munies de têtes dont elles se servent pour nuire.	19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For, their tails are like to serpents, and have heads: and with them they hurt.
20 Or les hommes échappés à l'hécatombe de ces fléaux ne renoncèrent même pas aux oeuvres deleurs mains: ils ne cessèrent d'adorer les démons, ces idoles d'or, d'argent, de bronze, de pierre et de bois,incapables de voir, d'entendre ou de marcher.	20 And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Ils n'abandonnèrent ni leurs meurtres, ni leurs sorcelleries, ni leurs débauches, ni leurs rapines.	21 Neither did they penance from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.