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1 The
fifth angel sounded,
and I saw
a star from the
sky which had
fallen to the
earth. The key
to the pit
of the abyss was
given to him.
2 He opened
the pit of
the abyss, and
smoke went up
out of the
pit, like the
smoke from a
burning furnace. The
sun and the air
were darkened
because of the
smoke from the
pit.
3 Then
out of the
smoke came locusts
on the earth,
and power was
given to them,
as the scorpions
of the earth
have power.
4 They
were told that
they should
not hurt the grass
of the earth,
neither any green
thing, neither any
tree, but only
those people
who don’t have
God’s seal
on their foreheads.
5 They
were given power,
not to kill them,
but to torment
them for five
months. Their torment
was like
the torment of a
scorpion when
it strikes a person.
6 In
those days people
will seek death,
and will in
no way find
it. They will
desire to die,
and death will
flee from them.
7 The
shapes of
the locusts were
like horses
prepared for war.
On their heads
were something like golden
crowns, and their
faces were like
people’s faces.
8 They
had hair like
women’s hair,
and their teeth
were like those
of lions.
9 They
had breastplates
like breastplates
of iron. The
sound of their
wings was like
the sound of
many chariots and
horses rushing to
war.
10 They
have tails like
those of scorpions,
with stingers. In
their tails they
have power to harm
men for five
months.
11 They
have over them
as king the angel
of the abyss. His
name in Hebrew
is “Abaddon”,
but in Greek,
he has the
name “Apollyon”.
12 The
first woe is past.
Behold, there are
still two woes
coming after this.
13 The
sixth angel sounded.
I heard a voice
from the horns
of the golden
altar which is
before God,
14 saying
to the sixth angel
who had the
trumpet, “Free the
four angels who
are bound at
the great river
Euphrates!”
15 The
four angels were freed
who had been
prepared for that
hour and day
and month and
year, so that
they might kill
one third
of mankind.
16 The number
of the armies
of the horsemen
was two hundred million.
I heard the number
of them.
17 Thus
I saw the
horses in the
vision and those
who sat on
them, having
breastplates of
fiery red, hyacinth blue,
and sulfur yellow;
and the horses’
heads resembled lions’
heads. Out of
their mouths
proceed fire,
smoke, and sulfur.
18 By
these three
plagues, one third
of mankind was killed:
by the fire,
the smoke, and
the sulfur, which
proceeded 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, and have
heads; and with
them they harm.
20 The
rest of mankind,
who were not killed
with these plagues,
didn’t repent of
the works of
their hands, that
they wouldn’t
worship demons,
and the idols
of gold, and
of silver, and of
brass, and of
stone, and of
wood, which can’t
see, hear, or walk.
21 They didn’t
repent of their
murders, their
sorceries,
their sexual
immorality, or
their thefts.