Revelation

9 And the fifth messenger sounded; and I saw a star out of heaven fallen unto the earth, and there was given unto him the key of the shaft of the abyss.

2 And he opened the shaft of the abyss; and there came up a smoke out of the shaft as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the shaft.

3 And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and there was given unto them licence, as the scorpions of the earth have licence.

4 And it was bidden them that they should not injure the herbage of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree,—but only the men who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads.

5 And it was given unto them that they should not slay them, but that they should be tormented five months; and the torture of them was as of a scorpion’s torture whensoever it smiteth a man.

6 And in those days shall men seek death and in nowise shall find it, and shall covet to die and death fleeth from them.

7 And the likenesses of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for battle; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto 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 of lions,

9 and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running into battle;

10 and they have tails like unto scorpions and stings, and in their tails is their licence to injure men five months.

11 They have over them as king the messenger of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddôn [“Destroyer”], and in the Greek he hath for name Destroyer.

12 The first Woe hath passed away, lo! there come yet two Woes after these things.

13 And the sixth messenger sounded; and I heard one voice from among the horns of the altar of gold which is before God,

14 saying unto the sixth messenger who was holding the trumpet—Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates.

15 And the four messengers were loosed, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should slay the third of men.

16 And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand—I heard the number of them.

17 And thus saw I the horses in the vision,—and them who were sitting upon them having breastplates as of fire and hyacinth and brimstone;—and the heads of the horses were as heads of lions, and out of their mouths come forth fire and smoke and brimstone:

18 by these three plagues were slain the third part of mankind, by reason of the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that proceedeth out of their mouths;

19 for the licence of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails are like unto serpents having heads, and with them they injure.

20 And the rest of mankind who were not slain by these plagues repented not of the works of their hands,—that they should not do homage unto the demons, nor unto the idols of gold and of silver and of copper and of stone and of wood which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

21 Neither repented they of their murders or of their sorceries or of their lewdnesses or of their thefts.