Revelation 9
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and aI saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given bthe key to the shaft of cthe bottomless pit. 2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft arose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and bthe sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 3 Then from the smoke came alocusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told anot to harm bthe grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have cthe seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were allowed to torment them afor five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 6 And in those days apeople will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 aIn appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: bon their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were clike human faces, 8 their hair like women’s hair, and atheir teeth like lions’ teeth; 9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was alike the noise of many chariots with bhorses rushing into battle. 10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people afor five months is in their tails. 11 They have aas king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is bAbaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
12 aThe first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from athe four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release athe four angels who are bound at bthe great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released ato kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of amounted troops was btwice ten thousand times ten thousand; cI heard their number. 17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were alike lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, adid not repent of bthe works of their hands nor give up worshiping cdemons dand idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their asorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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