[1 At the sounding of the fifth angel, a star falleth from heaven, to whom is
given the key of the bottomless pit: 2 he opens the pit, and there come
forth locusts like scorpions: 12 the first wo is past,]
AND the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him
was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there
arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great
furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by
reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon
the earth: and unto them was given power, as the
scorpions of the earth have power.
4 And it was commanded them that they should
not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green
thing, neither any tree, but only those men which
have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5 And to them it was given that they should not
kill them, but that they should be tormented five
months: and their torment was as the torment of a
scorpion, when he striketh a man.
6 And in those days shall men seek death, and
shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death
shall flee from them.
7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto
horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads
were as it were crowns like gold, and there faces
were as the faces of men.
8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and
their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9 And they had breast-plates, as it were breast-
plates of iron; and the sound of their wings was
as the sound of chariots of many horses running to
battle.
10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and
there were stings in their tails: and their power
was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had a king over them, which is the
angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew
tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue
hath his name Apollon.
12 One wo is past; and behold, there come two
woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a
voice from the four horns of the golden altar which
is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet,
Loose the four angels which are bound in the
great river Euphrates.
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were
prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and
a year, for to slay the third part of men.
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen
were two hundred thousand thousand: and I
heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and
them that sat on them, having breast-plates of fire,
and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the
horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their
mouths issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone.
18 By these three was the third part of men
killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the
brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their
tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and
had heads, and with them they do hurt.
20 And the rest of the men which were not
killed by these plagues yet repented not of the
works of their hands, that they should not worship
devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and
stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear
nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor
of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of
their thefts.
