Revelation 9:1-7 ▼

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.