Revelation 9:1-18 ▼

1 And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star having fallen out of heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the Abyss was given to it.

2 And he opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

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

4 And it was said to them that they will not harm the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men not having the seal of God on their foreheads.

5 And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they will torment them five months. And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it might strike a man.

6 And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die, and death flees from them.

7 And the likenesses of the locusts were like horses having been prepared for battle, and upon their heads were something like crowns, like gold, and their faces like the faces of men.

8 And they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as those of lions.

9 And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of many chariots of horses running into battle.

10 And they have tails and stingers like scorpions, and in their tails is their authority to harm men for five months.

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

12 The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes still are coming after these things.

13 And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard one voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,

14 saying to the sixth angel, the one having the trumpet, “Release the four angels, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates.”

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

16 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two myriads of myriads; I heard the number of them.

17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting on them, having fiery and hyacinthine and sulfurous breastplates. And the heads of the horses were like heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and sulfur.

18 From these three plagues a third of mankind was killed by the fire and by the smoke and by the sulfur proceeding out of their mouths.