Revelation 9:1–12

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