Revelation 8:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁹ and one third of [all] living sea creatures died, and one third of [all] ships were destroyed.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And a third of the sea was turned to blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea perished, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ and there died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, even they that had life; and the third part of the ships was destroyed.

Common English Bible

⁹ a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And a third part of the creatures that were living in the sea died. And a third part of the ships were destroyed.

Revelation 8:9 Cross References

Revelation 12:4

And his tail swept away one third of the stars of the sky and threw them to earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he could eat her child as soon as it was born.

Revelation 16:3

Then the second [angel] poured out his bowl into the ocean, making it turn into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the ocean died.

Revelation 8:10

[When] the third angel sounded its trumpet [I saw] a huge star, like a flaming torch, falling from heaven. It fell on one third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

Revelation 8:12

[When] the fourth angel sounded its trumpet [I saw] one third of the sun, one third of the moon, and one third of the stars being struck, so that one third [of their light] would become darkened. So, the daytime had [only] one third of its [normal] light, and the nighttime was the same way.

Revelation 8:7

[When] the first trumpet sounded [I saw] hail and fire, mingled with blood, being hurled down onto the earth. And one third of it was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up and all the green grass was [also] burned up.

Revelation 9:15

And the four angels, who had been ready for this hour and day and month and year, were [now] released to kill one third of mankind.

Revelation 9:18

One third of mankind was killed by these three plagues --- the fire, the smoke and the sulfur, which proceeded out of the horses’ mouths.