Revelation 9

1The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

2He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke rose from the pit like smoke from a great furnace. The sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

3And locusts came out from the smoke onto the earth, and authority was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have authority.

4And they were told not to harm the grass of the earth, neither any green thing nor any tree, except those people who do not have God's seal on their foreheads.

5And permission was given them not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like a scorpion's torment when it strikes a person.

6In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death flees from them.

7And the likenesses of the locusts resembled horses equipped for battle, and on their heads were crowns like gold, and their faces resembled human faces.

8And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like lions'.

9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

10And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; in their tails is their power to harm humans for five months.

11They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

12One woe has passed. Behold, two woes still come after these things.

13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a single voice from the horns of the golden altar before God.

14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates!"

15And the four angels were released, those prepared for the hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill a third of humanity.

16And the number of the cavalry armies was two myriads of myriads. I heard their number.

17And so I saw the horses in the vision, along with those seated on them wearing fiery, hyacinth, and sulfurous breastplates; the heads of the horses resembled lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur came from their mouths.

18By these three plagues a third of the people were killed—the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur proceeding out of their mouths.

19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails indeed resemble serpents with heads, and by them they injure.

20And the rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, neither repented of the works of their hands so as not to worship demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—which can neither see nor hear nor walk.

21And they did not repent of their murders, nor their sorceries, nor their sexual immorality, nor their thefts.