Revelation 9 New International Version (NIV)
9 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given
the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke
rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky
were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke
locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of
scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the
earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the
seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but
only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was
like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6 During those
days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die,
but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads
they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human
faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like
lions’ teeth. 9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the
sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and
chariots rushing into battle. 10 They had tails with stingers, like
scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five
months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name
in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from
the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to
the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are
bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels who had been
kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released
to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was
twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17
The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their
breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads
of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came
fire, smoke and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three
plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19 The
power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their
tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did
not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping
demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that
cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders,
their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts
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