Revelation 9 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the abyss.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the abyss. ² The star opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit. ³ And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. ⁴ They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵ They were not permitted to kill them, but only to torture them for five months, and the torture they inflicted was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a man. ⁶ In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them. ⁷ The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were victor's crowns that looked like gold, and their faces were like human faces. ⁸ their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. ⁹ They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. ¹⁰ They had tails and stings like scorpions; it was in their tails that their power lay to harm men for five months. ¹¹ They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon. ¹² The first woe is past. See! Two other woes are yet to come. ¹³ The sixth angel sounded his trumpet and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar before God ¹⁴ It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates. ¹⁵ And the four angels, who had been held ready for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. ¹⁶ And the number of the mounted troops was a hundred million (I heard their number). ¹⁷ I saw the horses and riders in the vision. Their breastplates were bright red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions. Their mouths issued fire, smoke, and brimstone. ¹⁸ A third of mankind was killed by these plagues of fire and smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. ¹⁹ For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like serpents, having heads, and with them they did injury. ²⁰ The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. ²¹ nor did they repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality or their thefts.