RKJNT - Revelation of John - 9

9:1  And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth: and to him was given the key to the bottomless pit.

9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose smoke out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.

9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

9:4  And they were told not to harm the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree; but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

9:5  And they were not permitted to kill them, but only to torment them for five months: and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when he stings a man.

9:6  And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

9:7  And the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

9:8  And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.

9:9  And they had breastplates, like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots and horses rushing to battle.

9:10  And they had tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails they had the power to hurt men for five months.

9:11  And they had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue, Apollyon.

9:12  One woe is past; behold, there are two more woes yet to come.

9:13  And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

9:14  Saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.

9:15  And the four angels were released, who had been prepared for this hour, and day, and month, and year, to kill a third of mankind.

9:16  And the number of the armies of the horsemen were two hundred million: I heard the number of them.

9:17  And in the vision, this was how I saw the horses and those who sat upon them: they wore breastplates of fiery red, sapphire blue, and sulphur yellow: and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and sulphur.

9:18  By these three was a third of mankind killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the sulphur, which came out of their mouths.

9:19  For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails: for their tails were like serpents, and had heads, and with them they do harm.

9:20  And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, still did not repent of the works of their hands; they did not stop worshipping devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wood: which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

9:21  Nor did they repent of their murders, or of their sorceries, or of their sexual immorality, or of their thefts.