Revelation 9

CLV(i) 1 And the fifth messenger trumpets. And I perceived a star fallen out of heaven into the earth. And to him was given the key of the well of the submerged chaos. 2 And he opens the well of the submerged chaos, and fumes ascended out of the well as the smoke of a large furnace, and the sun and the air are darkened by the fumes of the well." 3 And out of the fumes came out locusts into the earth, and license was granted them as the scorpions of the earth have license." 4 And it was declared to them that they should not be injuring the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, except those of mankind who have not the seal of God on their foreheads." 5 And it was granted to them, not that they should be killing them, but that they shall be tormented five months; and their torment is as the torment of a scorpion, whenever it should be striking a man." 6 And in those days men will be seeking death, and under no circumstances shall they be finding it. And they will be yearning to die, and death is fleeing from them." 7 And the likenesses of the locusts are like horses made ready for battle, and on their heads are as it were wreaths like gold, and their faces are as it were human faces, 8 and they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth are as if they were lions'." 9 And they had cuirasses, as it were cuirasses of iron, and the sound of their wings is as the sound of many chariot horses racing into battle." 10 And they have tails like scorpions, and stings, and their license is to injure mankind five months with their tails." 11 They have a king over them-the messenger of the submerged chaos. His Hebrew name is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon." 12 One woe passed away. Lo! Coming still are two woes after these. 13 And the sixth messenger trumpets. And I hear one voice out of the horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 saying to the sixth messenger who has the trumpet, "Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates." 15 And loosed were the four messengers, made ready for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they should be killing a third of mankind." 16 And the number of the troops of cavalry was two hundred millions-I hear their number. 17 And thus I perceived the horses in the vision, and those sitting on them, having cuirasses fiery and amethystine and sulphurous; and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths is issuing fire and fumes and sulphur." 18 By these three calamities were killed a third of mankind: by the fire and the fumes and the sulphur which is issuing out of their mouths. 19 For the license of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they are injuring." 20 And the rest of mankind, who were not killed in these calamities, repent not of the acts of their hands- that they will not be worshiping the demons and idols of gold and silver and copper and stone and wood, which are neither able to be observing nor to be hearing nor to be walking-." 21 and they repent not of their murders, nor of their enchantments, nor of their prostitution, nor of their thefts."