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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10They had tails with stingers like scorpions, which had the power to injure people for five months. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still to follow. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And the number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I heard their number. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Now the horses and riders in my vision looked like this: The riders had breastplates the colors of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and sulfur. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft. |
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