Revelation Chapter 9 Back Next{9:1} The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the
earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
{9:2} He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a [
Note] burning
furnace. The sun and the
air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
{9:3} Then out of the smoke came forth
locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
{9:4} They were told that they should not hurt the
grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their
foreheads.
{9:5} They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.
{9:6} In those days people will seek
death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
{9:7} The shapes of the locusts were like
horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden
crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.
{9:8} They had
hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of
lions.
{9:9} They had
breastplates, like breastplates of
iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of
chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.
{9:10} They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
{9:11} They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in
Hebrew is "
Abaddon," but in
Greek, he has the name "
Apollyon."
{9:12} The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
{9:13} The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the
horns of the golden
altar which is before God,
{9:14} saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river
Euphrates!"
{9:15} The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that
hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
{9:16} The number of the armies of the
horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them.
{9:17} Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed
fire, smoke, and sulfur.
{9:18} By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
{9:19} For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
{9:20} The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship
demons, and the
idols of gold, and of silver, and of
brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
{9:21} They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their
sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
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