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9:1  · The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from the sky to the earth; and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.
9:2  · He opened the shaft of the abyss, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a giant furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft.
9:3  Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like the power of · scorpions of the earth.
9:4  · They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
9:5  · They were allowed not to kill them but to torture them for five months, and · their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a person.
9:6  And in · those days people will seek · · death but will not find it; · they will long to die, but death will flee · from them.
9:7  · · In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle. · On · their heads were something like crowns of gold, and · their faces were like human faces.
9:8  · They had hair like women’s hair, and · their teeth were like lions’ teeth.
9:9  · They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.
9:10  · They had tails like scorpions, with stingers; and · · their power to hurt · people for five months lies in their tails.
9:11  They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in · Greek he has the name Apollyon.
9:12  The first woe · has passed; behold, two woes are yet to come after this.
9:13  · The sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar · that is before · God,
9:14  saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river · Euphrates.”
9:15  So the four angels, who had been prepared for this hour, · day, · month, and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
9:16  · The number of mounted troops · was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard · their number.
9:17  And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: The riders wore breastplates that were fiery red, · dark blue, and yellow like sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and out of · their mouths came fire and smoke and sulfur.
9:18  By · these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and the smoke and the sulfur that came out of · their mouths.
9:19  For the power of the horses is in · their mouths and in · their tails, · for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they inflict harm.
9:20  · The rest of mankind, those who were not killed by · these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands so as to give up worshiping · demons and · idols of gold and · silver and · bronze and · stone and · wood, which are not able to see or hear or walk.
9:21  Neither did they repent of · their murders or · their sorceries or · their sexual immorality or · their stealing.