1Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet. I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth. He was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke rose out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air were made dark by the smoke of the pit.
3Out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth. They were given power like the power that scorpions have on the earth.
4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree. They were to harm only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5They were not allowed to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the pain of a scorpion when it stings a man.
6In those days people will look for death, and will not find it. They will long to die, and death will run away from them.
7The locusts looked like horses ready for battle. On their heads were what looked like crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.
8Their hair was like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions.
9They had breastplates that seemed to be made of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses rushing into battle.
10They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to harm people for five months.
11They had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit. In the Hebrew language his name is Abaddon, and in the Greek language his name is Apollyon.
12One woe is past. Look, two more woes are still to come.
13Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet. I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that stands before God.
14It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Set free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
15So the four angels were set free. They had been kept ready for that hour, and day, and month, and year, to kill a third of the people.
16The number of the army of horsemen was two hundred thousand thousand. I heard their number.
17This is how I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them. They had breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and of brimstone. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and brimstone.
18By these three a third of the people were killed: by the fire, by the smoke, and by the brimstone that came out of their mouths.
19For their power is in their mouths and in their tails. Their tails were like snakes, and had heads, and with them they do harm.
20The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshipping demons, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
21They did not repent of their murders, or of their witchcraft, or of their sexual sin, or of their thefts.