9Then the fifth angel sounded: ^aAnd I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to ^bthe ¹bottomless pit. ²And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the ^csun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. ³Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, ^das the scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴They were commanded ^enot to harm ^fthe grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have ^gthe seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵And ²they were not given authority to kill them, ^hbut to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. ⁶In those days ⁱmen will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

⁷^jThe shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. ^kOn their heads were crowns of something like gold, ^land their faces were like the faces of men. ⁸They had hair like women’s hair, and ^mtheir teeth were like lions’ teeth. ⁹And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was ⁿlike the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. ¹⁰They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. ¹¹And they had as king over them ^othe angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is ³Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name ⁴Apollyon.

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Footnotes

1Lit. shaft of the abyss
2The locusts
3Lit. Destruction
4Lit. Destroyer

Cross references

a Luke 10:18; Rev. 8:10
b Luke 8:31; Rev. 9:2, 11; 17:8
c Joel 2:2, 10
d Ex. 10:4; Judg. 7:12
e Rev. 6:6
f Rev. 8:7
g Ex. 12:23; Ezek. 9:4; Rev. 7:2, 3
h[Rev. 9:10; 11:7]
i Job 3:21; 7:15; Is. 2:19; Jer. 8:3; Rev. 6:16
j Joel 2:4
k Nah. 3:17
l Dan. 7:8
m Joel 1:6
n Jer. 47:3; Joel 2:5–7
o Eph. 2:2