Revelation 9
1 The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. The key to the shaft of the abyss was given to it.
2 It opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke rose from the shaft like smoke from a great furnace. The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft.
3 Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like the power of the scorpions of the earth.
4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 They were allowed not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person.
6 In those days people will seek death and will by no means find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for war. On their heads were what seemed to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like human faces,
8 they had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth,
9 they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of many horses' chariots rushing into battle.
10 They had tails like scorpions, with stingers, and in their tails was their power to harm people for five months.
11 They had as their king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
12 The first woe has passed. Look, two more woes are still coming after this.
13 The sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that stands before God.
14 It said to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound beside the great river Euphrates.”
15 The four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of the people.
16 The number of the cavalry troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.
17 This is how I saw the horses and their riders in the vision: they had breastplates the color of fire, hyacinth, and sulfur. The horses' heads were like lions' heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came out of their mouths.
18 A third of the people were killed by these three plagues: the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 For the horses' power was in their mouths and in their tails. Their tails were like snakes, with heads, and they harmed people with them.
20 The rest of the people, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands and stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk;
21 they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
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