The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky fallen
to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like
the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened
because of the smoke from the pit.
Then out of the smoke came
forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the
scorpions of the earth have power.
They were told that they
should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing,
neither any tree, but only those men who don't have God's seal on their
foreheads.
They were given power not to kill them, but to torment
them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion,
when it strikes a man.
In those days men will seek death, and
will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee
from them.
The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared
for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their
faces were like men's faces.
They had hair like women's hair, and
their teeth were like those of lions.
They had breastplates, like
breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of
chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.
They have tails like
those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm
men for five months.
They have over them as king the angel of
the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the
name "Apollyon."
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still
two woes coming after this.
The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of
the golden altar which is before God,
saying to the sixth angel
who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great
river Euphrates!"
The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that
hour and day and month and year, so that they would kill one third of
mankind.
The number of the armies of the horsemen was ten
thousands of ten thousands. I heard the number of them.
Thus I
saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having
breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the
heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the
fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their
tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them
they harm.
The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these
plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't
worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and
of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor
of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.