Revelation 9

¹ And the fifth angel trumpeted, and I saw [a] star fallen from heaven to the land, and to him was given the key of the pit of the abyss¹. ² And he opened the pit of the abyss², and [a] smoke went up from the pit like the smoke of [a] great furnace, and the sun and air were darkened from the smoke of the pit. ³ And from the pit went out locusts to the land, and to them was given authority as the scorpions of the land have authority. ⁴ And it was commanded them that they not injure the grass of the land nor every green [thing] nor every tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵ And it was given to them that they be not killing them, but in order that they torment [them] five months. And their torment [is] as [the] torment of [a] scorpion, when it stings [a] man. ⁶ And in those days men will seek death and will not find it, and will lust to die, and death flees from them. ⁷ And the likeness of the locusts [is] like horses prepared for war, and upon their heads [there were] like crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as like [the] faces of men, ⁸ and they had hair like [the] hair of women, and their teeth were like [a] lion's, ⁹ and they had breast-plates like iron breast-plates, and the sound of their wings [was] like [the] sound of chariots of many horses running to war. ¹⁰ And they have tails like [those of] scorpions and [there were] stings, and in their tails [was] their authority to hurt men five months. ¹¹ And they have [a] king over them, the angel of the abyss³, his name in Hebrew [is] Abaddon, and in the Greek he has [the] name Apollyon⁴. ¹² The one woe has departed, behold two woes still come after these [things]. ¹³ And the sixth angel trumpeted, 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: Loose the four angels bound in the great river Euphrates. ¹⁵ And the four angels prepared for this hour and day and month and year were loosed in order that they be killing a third of men. ¹⁶ And the number of the army of horsemen [was] twenty thousand thousands—I heard their number. ¹⁷ And thus I saw the horses in the vision and those having sat upon them, having firey and Hyacinth⁵ and sulfurous breastplates, and the heads of the horses [were] like [the] heads of lions, and from their mouths proceeded fire and smoke and sulfur. ¹⁸ By this third plague was a third of men killed, from the fire and the smoke and the sulfur proceeding from their mouths. ¹⁹ For the power of the horses [is] in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do injury. ²⁰ And the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither repented from the works of their hands, in order that they not worship demons and idols of gold and silver and copper and stone and wood, which are able neither to be seeing nor hearing nor walking, ²¹ and they did not repent from their murders nor from their sorceries nor from their fornications nor from their thefts.

¹or "underworld"

²or "underworld"

³or "underworld"

⁴or "Destroyer"

⁵dark blue, dark red ? version 3.85.
On 08 Sep 2009, 19:30.