Revelation 9

And the fifth angel trumpeted, and I saw a star having fallen from the sky to the earth, and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to it.

And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the shaft. \*

And locusts came from the smoke onto the earth, and power was given to them as scorpions of the earth have power.

And it was told to them that they should not harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, if not the men who did not have the seal of God on {their} foreheads. \*

And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they would be tormented for five months and their torment {would be} like the torment of a scorpion when it might strike a man.

And in those days, men will seek death, but they will certainly not find it, and they will long to die, but death flees from them. \*

And the appearance of the locusts {was} like horses prepared for war. And on their heads {were something} like crowns resembling gold, and their faces {were} like faces of men.

And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were as of lions,

and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings {was} like the sound of many chariots of horses running into battle. \*

And they have tails and stingers as scorpions do, and in their tails {is} their power to harm men for five months.

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

The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these {things}. \*

And the sixth angel trumpeted, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar before God,

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

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 men. \*

And the number of the horse soldiers {was} two myriads of myriads; I heard their number.

And thus in the vision I saw the horses and the ones riding on them: having fiery and hyacinth and sulfurous breastplates. And the heads of the horses {were} as heads of lions, and from their mouths comes fire and smoke and sulfur. \*

By these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the sulfur coming out from their mouths, a third of men were killed.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails {are} like snakes, having heads, and with them they injure. \*

And the rest of men, the ones not killed in these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they will not worship demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk.

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