And the fifth angel trumpeted out and I saw a star out of heaven fallen to the earth, and to it was given the key of the bottomless well. And it opened the bottomless well and smoke went up out of the well like smoke of a great furnace, and the smoke of the well darkened the sun and the air.
And out of the smoke locusts came out onto the earth, and power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power. And they were told not to damage the vegetation of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the people not having the seal of God on their foreheads. And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes someone. And in those days men will seek death and will not find it, and they will yearn to die and death will go away from them.
And the locusts looked like horses all ready for war, and on their heads crowns like gold, and their faces like men’s faces, and they had hair like women’s hair and their teeth were like those of lions, and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings like the sound of many chariots of horses running to war. And they have tails like scorpions, and stings were in their tails and their power was to hurt men for five months. And they have over them a king, the angel of the depth, and his name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek he has the name Appolyon .
The first woe is past. Look! Two more woes are still coming after these!
And the sixth angel trumpeted out and I heard one voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is in front of God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet,
“Loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
And the four angels were loosed, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill a third of the people. And the number of troops of the cavalry: two ten thousands of ten thousands, and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and the ones sitting on them, having fiery breastplates, hyacinthine, and like sulphur, and the horses’ heads like lions’ heads and out of their mouths proceeds fire and smoke and sulphur. By these three a third of the people were killed, by the fire and by the smoke and by the sulphur which proceeds out of their mouths. For their powers are in their mouth, for their tails like serpents having heads, and with them they do harm.
And the rest of the people who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they should not worship the demons, and the gold and the silver and the brass and the stone and the wooden idols which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
And they did not repent of their murders, or of their sorceries, or of their fornication, or of their thefts.
