Revelation 9
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the
earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.
2 And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit,
as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason
of the smoke of the pit.
3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given
them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the
seal of God on their foreheads.
5 And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be
tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when
it striketh a man.
6 And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they
shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon
their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men's
faces.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as [teeth] of
lions.
9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of
their wings was as the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war.
10 And they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is
their power to hurt men five months.
11 They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is
Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath the name Apollyon.
12 The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden
altar which is before God,
14 one saying to the sixth angel that had one trumpet, Loose the four angels
that are bound at the great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day
and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.
16 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten
thousand: I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having
breastplates [as] of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of
lions; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone.
18 By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the
smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their
tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.
20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not
of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols
of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can
neither see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.