| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
|
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. |
