Revelation 9

The Fifth Trumpet

9The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. ⁿThe key to the shaft of the abyss ^owas given to him. ²He opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great ^pfurnace ^qso that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft. ^r3Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth, ^sand power ^twas given to them ^ulike the power that scorpions have on the earth. ^v4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, ^wbut only people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads. ^x5They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man. ⁶In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them. ^y

⁷The appearance of the locusts was like horses equipped for battle. ^zSomething like gold crowns was on their heads; their faces were like men’s faces; ⁸they had hair like women’s hair; their teeth were like lions’ teeth; ^a9they had chests like iron breastplates; the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses rushing into battle; ¹⁰and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power ^bto harm people for five months. ¹¹They had as their king ^cthe angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, ^deand in Greek he has the name Apollyon. ^f12The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this. ^g

The Sixth Trumpet

¹³The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four ^hhorns of the gold altar ⁱthat is before God, I heard a voice ¹⁴say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels ^jbound at the great river Euphrates.” ^k15So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year ^lwere released to kill a third ^mof the human race. ¹⁶The number of mounted troops was 200 million; ⁿI heard their number. ¹⁷This is how I saw the horses in my vision: The horsemen had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and from their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur. ^o18A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues—by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths. ¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads, and they inflict injury with them.

²⁰The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands ^pto stop worshiping demons ^qand idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, ^rwhich are not able to see, hear, or walk. ^s21And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, ^ttheir sexual immorality, or their thefts.