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Chapter 9 |
| 1 | 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.
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| 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. |
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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 their 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.
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| 9 | And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates 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
Apollyon. |
| 12
| One woe 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. |
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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
breastplates 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
