Revelation:9

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* The fifth angel blew his trumpet ; and I saw a Star which had fallen from Heaven to the earth ; and to him was given the key of the depths of the bottomless pit , * and he opened the depths of the bottomless pit . And smoke came up out of the pit resembling the smoke of a vast furnace , so that the sun was darkened , and the air also , by reason of the smoke of the pit . * And from the midst of the smoke there came locusts on to the earth , and power was given to them resembling the power which earthly scorpions possess . * And they were forbidden to injure the herbage of the earth , or any green thing , or any tree . They were only to injure human beings –those who have not the seal of God on their foreheads . * Their mission was not to kill , but to cause awful agony for five months ; and this agony was like that which a scorpion inflicts when it stings a man . * And at that time people will seek death , but will by no possibility find it , and will long to die , but death evades them . * The appearance of the locusts was like that of horses equipped for war . On their heads they had wreaths which looked like gold . * Their faces seemed human and they had hair like women 's hair , but their teeth resembled those of lions . * They had breast-plates which seemed to be made of steel ; and the noise caused by their wings was like that of a vast number of horses and chariots hurrying into battle . * They had tails like those of scorpions , and also stings ; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind for five months . * The locusts had a king over them –the angel of the bottomless pit , whose name in Hebrew is `Abaddon ,' while in the Greek he is called `Apollyon .' * The first woe is past ; two other woes have still to come . * The sixth angel blew his trumpet ; and I heard a single voice speaking from among the horns of the golden incense altar which is in the presence of God . * It said to the sixth angel –the angel who had the trumpet , »Set at liberty the four angels who are prisoners near the great river Euphrates .« * And the four angels who had been kept in readiness for that hour , day , month , and year , were set at liberty , so that they might kill a third part of mankind . * The number of the cavalry was two hundred millions ; I heard their number . * And this was the appearance of the horses which I saw in my vision –and of their riders . The body-armour of the riders was red , blue and yellow ; and the horses ' heads were shaped like the heads of lions , while from their mouths there came fire and smoke and sulphur . * By these three plagues a third part of mankind were destroyed –by the fire and the smoke , and by the sulphur which came from their mouths . * For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails ; their tails being like serpents , and having heads , and it is with them that they inflict injury . * But the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues , did not even then repent and leave the things they had made , so as to cease worshipping the demons , and the idols of gold and silver , bronze , stone , and wood , which can neither see nor hear , nor move . * Nor did they repent of their murders , their practice of magic , their fornication , or their thefts .

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