1And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.[1] (Lu 8:31; Lu 10:18; Ro 10:7; Re 1:18; Re 8:10; Re 9:2; Re 9:11; Re 11:7; Re 12:9; Re 17:8; Re 20:1; Re 20:3)2He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. (Ge 19:28; Isa 34:10; Joe 2:10)3Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. (Ex 10:4)4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. (Re 6:6; Re 7:2; Re 7:3; Re 8:7)5They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. (Re 9:10)6And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. (Job 3:21; Job 7:15; Jer 8:3)7In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, (Da 7:8; Joe 2:4; Na 3:17)8their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth; (Joe 1:6)9they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. (Job 39:21; Jer 8:6; Joe 2:5)10They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. (Re 9:5)11They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.[2] (Job 18:14; Job 26:6; Pr 30:27; Eph 2:2)12The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come. (Re 8:13; Re 11:14)13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, (Ex 30:3)14saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” (Re 7:1; Re 16:12)15So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. (Re 8:7)16The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. (Ps 68:17; Eze 38:4; Da 7:10; Re 7:4)17And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire[3] and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. (1Ch 12:8; Isa 5:28)18By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.20The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, (De 31:29; Ps 115:4; Ps 135:15; Jer 1:16; Jer 25:14; Da 5:23; 1Co 10:20; Re 2:21)21nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts. (Ga 5:20; Re 21:8; Re 22:15)
Revelation 9
King James Version
1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.4And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.5And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.7And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.10And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.11And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.12One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,14Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.15And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.16And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.18By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.20And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:21Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.