Revelation 9:11 - And they were ruled by a king who was in fact the Angel of the Bottomless Pit, whose name in Hebrew was Abaddon, but in Greek, was Apollyon. [Turker's Comment: Unless one knows what the Greek and Hebrew names translate to, it is hard to know what John is trying to convey, but it is one of the few instances where he bothers to give a name in two languages and call attention to the fact.]
Revelation 9:12 - One problem was over, but then two more issues came up.
Revelation 9:13 - Then the sixth archangel played his trumpet, I heard the sound of the four horns coming from the gold altar of God. [Turker's Comment: Here the angels were heard the blowing the horns from the altar of God.]
Revelation 9:14 - Said to the sixth angel with the trumpet, Get rid of the four angels in the Euphrates river. [Turker's Comment: The sixth angel is being told to get rid of the 4 angels in the river.]
Revelation 9:15 - And the four angels were turned loose, to fulfill what they had been trained to do at this hour, on this day, in this month, in this year, which is to kill a third of mankind. [Turker's Comment: The four angels have been prepared to slay a third of mankind and were waiting for the exact time, in history, when they would be called and they were turned loose.]
Revelation 9:16 - The army of riders was two hundred million strong: I could hear every one of them.
Revelation 9:17 - In my dream I saw horses with riders wearing breastplates of fire and jacinth and brimstone, and the horses breathed smoke and fire and brimstone and had the heads of lions. [Turker's Comment: The dreamer saw true evil in the men and their horses.]
Revelation 9:18 - The third part of men was killed by fire, smoke, and brimstone, which came out of their mouths.
Revelation 9:19 - They breath fire and have sharp teeth and they have heads at the ends of their tails and they are very dangerous. [Turker's Comment: there are things worse than real life.]
Revelation 9:20 - Those of whom were spared the violence of the plagues still did not repent what they wrought with their hands, that they should not worship the unclean spirits of the wild, nor fashioned idols of precious metals: which they could not perceive nor walk:; [Turker's Comment: Old Testament, maybe, after Moses came down from the mountain? Or not? I don't know, but I think I did a good job keeping the meaning of this one intact.]
Revelation 9:21 - The guilty never felt sorry about the people they had killed, the items they had stolen, the adultery they had engaged in, or the crimes they had committed. [Turker's Comment: The criminals didn't feel sorry for the crimes they had committed.]
