Revelation 9:1–21

¹And the fifth angel blew his trumpet. And I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given him.²And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun was darkened, also the air, by the smoke of the pit.³And out of the smoke locusts came forth upon the earth; and authority was given them, the same authority as the scorpions of the earth have.⁴And they were told to harm no vegetation of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

⁵And it was granted the [locusts], not to kill them, but that these should be tormented five months, and the torment upon them was as torment by a scorpion when it strikes a man.⁶And in those days the men will seek death but will by no means find it, and they will desire to die but death keeps fleeing from them.

⁷And the likenesses of the locusts resembled horses prepared for battle; and upon their heads [were] what seemed to be crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as men’s faces,⁸but they had hair as women’s hair. And their teeth were as those of lions;⁹and they had breastplates like iron breastplates. And the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle.¹⁰Also, they have tails and stings like scorpions; and in their tails is their authority to hurt the men five months.¹¹They have over them a king, the angel of the abyss. In Hebrew his name is A‧bad′don, but in Greek he has the name A‧pol′lyon.

¹²The one woe is past. Look! Two more woes are coming after these things.

¹³And the sixth angel blew his trumpet. And I heard one voice out of the horns of the golden altar that is before God¹⁴say to the sixth angel, who had the trumpet: “Untie the four angels that are bound at the great river Eu‧phra′tes.”¹⁵And the four angels were untied, who have been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, to kill a third of the men.

¹⁶And the number of the armies of cavalry was two myriads of myriads: I heard the number of them.¹⁷And this is how I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them: they had fire‐red and hyacinth‐blue and sulphur‐yellow breastplates; and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions, and out of their mouths fire and smoke and sulphur issued forth.¹⁸By these three plagues a third of the men were killed, from the fire and the smoke and the sulphur which issued forth from their mouths.¹⁹For the authority of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with these they do harm.

²⁰But the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they should not worship the demons and the idols of gold and silver and copper and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;²¹and they did not repent of their murders nor of their spiritistic practices nor of their fornication nor of their thefts.