Revelation 9

Chapter 9

The Fifth Trumpet—the Bottomless Pit

¹Then the ^afifth angel sounded, and I saw a ^bstar from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the ^ckey of the ^1dbottomless pit was given to him.

²He opened the ¹bottomless pit, and ^asmoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and ^bthe sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

³Then out of the smoke came ^alocusts ¹upon the earth, and power was given them, as the ^bscorpions of the earth have power.

⁴They were told not to ^ahurt the ^bgrass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the ^cseal of God on their foreheads.

⁵And ¹they were not permitted to kill ²anyone, but to torment for ^afive months; and their torment was like the torment of a ^bscorpion when it ³stings a man.

⁶And in those days ^amen will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

⁷The ^1aappearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

⁸They had hair like the hair of women, and their ^ateeth were like the teeth of lions.

⁹They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the ^asound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.

¹⁰They have tails like ^ascorpions, and stings; and in their ^btails is their power to hurt men for ^cfive months.

¹¹They have as king over them, the angel of the ^aabyss; his name in ^bHebrew is ^1cAbaddon, and in the Greek he has the name ²Apollyon.

^12aThe first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

The Sixth Trumpet—Army from the East

¹³Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard ¹a voice from the ²four ^ahorns of the ^bgolden altar which is before God,

¹⁴one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the ^afour angels who are bound at the ^bgreat river Euphrates.”

¹⁵And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were ^areleased, so that they would kill a ^bthird of ¹mankind.

¹⁶The number of the armies of the horsemen was ^atwo hundred million; ^bI heard the number of them.

¹⁷And ¹this is how I saw ^ain the vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of ^2bbrimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and ^cout of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone.

¹⁸A ^athird of ¹mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the ^bfire and the smoke and the ²brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

¹⁹For 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 do harm.

²⁰The rest of ¹mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, ^adid not repent of ^bthe works of their hands, so as not to ^cworship demons, and ^dthe idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

²¹and they ^adid not repent of their murders nor of their ^bsorceries nor of their ^cimmorality nor of their thefts.