9:1 Then 1 the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky 2 to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss. 3 9:2 He 4 opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it 5 like smoke from a giant furnace. The 6 sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft. 9:3 Then 7 out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power 8 like that of the scorpions of the earth. 9:4 They 9 were told 10 not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people 11 who did not have the seal of God on their 12 forehead. 9:5 The locusts 13 were not given permission 14 to kill 15 them, but only to torture 16 them 17 for five months, and their torture was like that 18 of a scorpion when it stings a person. 19 9:6 In 20 those days people 21 will seek death, but 22 will not be able to 23 find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
9:7 Now 24 the locusts looked like horses equipped for battle. On 25 their heads were something like crowns similar to gold, 26 and their faces looked like men’s 27 faces. 9:8 They 28 had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9:9 They had breastplates 29 like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle. 9:10 They have 30 tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability 31 to injure people for five months is in their tails. 9:11 They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. 32
9:12 The first woe has passed, but 33 two woes are still coming after these things!
9:13 Then 34 the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the 35 horns on the golden altar that is before God, 9:14 saying to the sixth angel, the one holding 36 the trumpet, “Set free 37 the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!” 9:15 Then 38 the four angels who had been prepared for this 39 hour, day, 40 month, and year were set free to kill 41 a third of humanity. 9:16 The 42 number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; 43 I heard their number. 9:17 Now 44 this is what the horses and their riders 45 looked like in my 46 vision: The riders had breastplates that were fiery red, 47 dark blue, 48 and sulfurous 49 yellow in color. 50 The 51 heads of the horses looked like lions’ heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur 52 came out of their mouths. 9:18 A third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, that is, 53 by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came out of their mouths. 9:19 For the power 54 of the horses resides 55 in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries. 9:20 The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made 56 of gold, silver, 57 bronze, stone, and wood – idols that cannot see or hear or walk about. 9:21 Furthermore, 58 they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, 59 of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.